Sight or scent: Lemur sensory reliance in detecting food quality varies with feeding ecology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Rushmore, Julie ^a,b   Leonhardt, Sara D ^a,c   Drea, Christine M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING; FRUGIVORE; LEMURIDAE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; SMELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEMUR;

ANIMALIA; LEMUR; LEMUR CATTA; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES; PROPITHECUS; PROPITHECUS COQUERELI; VARECIA VARIEGATA;

EID: 84864571538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041558     Document Type: Article

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