Wild mouse lemurs revisit artificial feeding platforms: Implications for field experiments on sensory and cognitive abilities in small primates

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 892-896

  Joly, Marine ^a   Scheumann, Marina ^a   Zimmermann, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Field experiment; Foraging strategy; Microcebus murinus; Prosimian; Sympatric species

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING GROUND; FIELD METHOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PRIMATE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SYMPATRY; WILD POPULATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; SURVIVAL;

LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSIMIAN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CHEIROGALEIDAE; COGNITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE;

EID: 53049093462     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20560     Document Type: Article

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