Feeding behavior of lactating brown lemur females (Eulemur fulvus) in Mayotte: Influence of infant age and plant phenology

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 966-977

  Tarnaud, Laurent ^a,b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Altmann's model; Brown lemur; Food intake; Lactation cost; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SUPPLY; LACTATION; PRIMATE; RAINFALL; SUCKLING;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMOROS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLOWER; FRUIT; LACTATION; LEMURIDAE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PROSIMIAN; TIME;

AGING; ANIMALS; COMOROS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FLOWERS; FRUIT; LACTATION; LEMURIDAE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; TIME FACTORS;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MAYOTTE;

ANIMALIA; EULEMUR FULVUS; LEMUR; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 33749447973     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20288     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Altmann J. 1974. Observational study of behavior: sampling methods. Behaviour 49:227-267.
2. Altmann J. 1980. Baboon mothers and infants. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 272p.
3. Altmann J, Samuels A. 1992. Costs of maternal care: infant-carrying in baboons. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 29:391-398.
4. Altmann J, Alberts SC. 2003. Variability in reproductive success viewed from a life-history perspective in baboons. Am J Hum Biol 15:401-409.
5. Babbitt KJ, Packard JM. 1990. Suckling behaviour of the collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu). Ethology 86:102-115.
6. Buss DH, Cooper RW, Walken K. 1976. Composition of lemur milk. Folia Primatol 26:301-305.
7. Clutton-Brock TH, Iason GR, Albon SD, Guinness FE. 1982. Effects of lactation on feeding behaviour and habitat use in wild red deer hinds. J Zool Lond 198:227-236.
8. CIQUAL-CNEVA. 1993. Répertoire général des aliments. Paris: Orstom edition-INRA Editions.
9. Daniels HL. 1984. Oxygen consumption in Lemur fulvus: deviation from the ideal model. J Mammal 65:584-592.
10. Doyle GA. 1979. Development of behaviour in prosimians with special reference to the lesser bush baby, Galago senegalensis moholi. In: Doyle GA, Martin RD, editors. The study of prosimian behaviour. New York: Academic Press. p 157-206.
11. Duncan P. 1985. Time-budget in Camargue horse. III. Environmental influences. Behaviour 92:188-208.
12. Dunbar RIM. 2002. Modelling primate behavioral ecology. Int J Primatol 23:785-820.
13. Dunbar RIM, Dunbar P. 1988. Maternal time budgets of gelada baboons. Anim Behav 36:970-980.
14. Dunbar RIM, Hannah-Stewart L, Dunbar P. 2002. Forage quality and the costs of lactation for female gelada baboons. Anim Behav 64:801-805.
15. Gittleman JL. 1988. Behavioural energetic of lactation in a herbivorous carnivore, the red panda (Ailurus fulgens). Ethology 79:13-24.
16. Gittleman JL, Oftedal DJ. 1987. Comparative growth and lactation energetics in carnivores. Symp Zool Soc Lond 57:41-77.
17. Gittleman JL, Thompson SD. 1988. Energy allocation in mammalian reproduction. Am Zool 28:863-875.
18. Harvey PH, Martin RD, Clutton-Brock TH. 1987. Life histories in comparative perspective. In: Smuts BB, Cheney DL, Seyfarth RM, Wrangham RW, Strushaker TT, editors. Primate societies. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press. p 181-196.
19. Hill RA, Lycett JE, Dunbar RIM. 2000. Ecological and social determinants of birth intervals in baboons. Behav Ecol 11:560-564.
20. Hill RA, Dunbar RIM. 2002. Climatic determinants of diet and foraging behaviour in baboons. Evol Ecol 16:579-593.
21. Hinde RA, Spencer-Booth Y. 1967. The behaviour of sociality living rhesus monkeys in their two and half years. Anim Behav 15:169-196.
22. Hladik CM. 1977. A comparative study of the feeding strategies of two sympatric species of leaf monkeys: Presbytis senex and Presbytis entellus. In: Clutton-Brock TH, editor. Primate ecology. London: Academic Press. p 324-353.
23. Hladik M, Leigh EG, Bourlière F. 1996. Disponibilités des ressources alimentaires dans les forêts tropicales. In: Hladik C, Hladik A, Pagezy H, Linares OF, Koppert JA, Froment A, editors. L'alimentation en forêt tropicale. Paris: UNESCO. p 219-242.
24. Hofer H, East M. 1993. The commuting system of Serengeti spotted hyenas: how a predator copes with migratory prey. III. Attendance and maternal care. Anim Behav 46:575-589.
25. Janson CH, van Schaick CP. 1993. Ecological risk aversion in juvenile primates: slow and steady wins race. In: Pereira ME, Fairbanks LA, editors. Life history, development and behaviour. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p 57-74.
26. Kappeler PM, Heyman EW. 1996. Nonconvergence in the evolution of primate life history and socio-ecology. Biol J Linn Soc 59:297-326.
27. Lavigueur L, Barrette C. 1995. Suckling, weaning, and growth in captive woodland caribou. Can J Zool 70:1753-1766.
28. Lee PC, Maljuf P, Gordon LJ. 1991. Growth, weaning and maternal investment from comparative perspective. J Zool Lond 225:99-114.
29. Martin P. 1984. The meaning of weaning. Anim Behav 32:1257-1258.
30. Mendl M, Paul ES. 1989. Observation of nursing and suckling behaviour as an indicator of milk transfer and parental investment. Anim Behav 37:513-514.
31. National Research Council of the National Academies. 2003. Nutrient acquirements of non-human primates. Washington, DC: National Academic Press. 286p.
32. Oftedal OT. 1984. Milk composition, milk yield and energy output at peak lactation: a comparative review. Symp Zool Soc Lond 51:33-85.
33. Oftedal OT. 1985. Pregnancy and lactation. In: Hudson RJ, White RG, editors. The bioenergetics of wild herbivores. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p 215-238.
34. Pereira ME. 1993. Seasonal adjustment of growth rate and adult body weight in ringtailed lemurs. In: Kappeler PM, Ganzhorn JU, editors. Lemur social systems and their ecological basis. New York: Plenum. p 205-221.
35. Pond CM. 1977. The significance of lactation in the evolution of mammmals. Evol 31:177-199.
36. Rasmussen DT. 1985. A comparative study of breeding seasonality and litter size in eleven taxa of captive lemurs (Lemur and Varecia). Int J Primatol 6:501-511.
37. Richard AF, Nicoll ME. 1987. Female social dominance and basal metabolism in a Malagasy primate, Propithecus verreauxi. Am J Primatol 12:309-314.
38. Roberts SB, Cole TJ, Coward WA. 1985. Lactational performance in relation to energy intake in baboon. Am J Clin Nutr 41:1270-1276.
39. Sauther ML. 1994. Wild plant use by pregnant and lactating ring-tailed lemurs with implications for early homonid foraging. In: Etkin NL, editor. Eating on the wild side. Tucson/London: University of Arizona Press. p 240-256.
40. Sikes RS. 1995. Costs of lactation and optimal litter size in northern grasshopper mice (Onychomys leucogaster). J Mammal 76:348-357.
41. Tarnaud L, Simmen B. 2002. A major increase in the population of brown lemurs on Mayotte since the decline reported in 1987. Oryx 36:297-300.
42. Tarnaud L. 2004a. Ontogeny of feeding behavior of Eulemur fulvus in the dry forest of Mayotte. Int J Primatol 25:803-824.
43. Tarnaud L. 2004b. L'ontogenèse du comportement alimentaire du primate Eulemur fulvus en forêt sèche (Mayotte, Archipel des Comores) en relation avec le lien mèrejeune et la disponibilité des ressources alimentaires. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Paris, Paris, France. available from: http://tel.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/archives0/00/00/28/04/ .
44. Tattersall I. 1977. Ecology of behavior of Lemur fulvus mayottensis, primate lemuriform. Anthropol Paper Am Mus Nat Hist 54:425-482.
45. Tilden CD, Oftedal OT. 1995. The bioenergetics of reproduction in prosimian primates: is it related to female dominance? In: Alterman L, Doyle GA, Izard K, editors. Creatures of the dark. New York: Plenum Press. p 119-131.
46. Trivers RL. 1974. Parent-offspring conflict. Am Zool 14:249-264.
47. Vasey N. 2002. Niche separation in Varecia variegata rubra and Eulemur fulvus albifrons: II. Intraspecific patterns. Am J Phys Anthropol 118:169-183.
48. Weiner J. 1989. Metabolic constraints to mammalian energy budgets. Acta Theriol 34:3-35.
49. Whitten AJ. 1982. Diet and feeding behaviour of Kloss gibbons on Siberut Island, Indonesia. Folia Primatol 37:177-208.
50. Wright PC. 1999. Lemur traits and Madagascar ecology: coping with an island environment. Yearb Phys Anthropol 42:31-72.
51. Yamashita N. 1996. Seasonality and site specificity of mechanical dietary patterns in two Malagasy lemur families (Lemuridae and Indridae). Int J Primatol 17:355-386.
52. Zinner D. 1999. Relationship between feeding time and food intake in Hamadryas baboons (Papio hamadryas) and the value of feeding time as predictor of food intake. Zoo Biol 18:495-505.