Amanda D. Webber, J. S. Solofondranohatra, Simon Razafindramoana, David Fernández, Charlotte A. Parker, M. Steer, M. Abrahams, J. Allainguillaume
{"title":"Lemurs in Cacao: Presence and Abundance within the Shade Plantations of Northern Madagascar","authors":"Amanda D. Webber, J. S. Solofondranohatra, Simon Razafindramoana, David Fernández, Charlotte A. Parker, M. Steer, M. Abrahams, J. Allainguillaume","doi":"10.1159/000501987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000501987","url":null,"abstract":"The recognition that much biodiversity exists outside protected areas is driving research to understand how animals survive in anthropogenic landscapes. In Madagascar, cacao (Theobroma cacao) is grown under a mix of native and exotic shade trees, and this study sought to understand whether lemurs were present in these agroecosystems. Between November 2016 and March 2017, discussions with farmers, nocturnal reconnaissance surveys and camera traps were used to confirm the presence of lemurs in the Cokafa and Mangabe plantations near Ambanja, north-west Madagascar. Four species of lemur were encountered in nocturnal surveys: Mirza zaza, Phaner parienti, Microcebussp. and Cheirogaleussp. with encounter rates of 1.2, 0.4, 0.4 and 0.3 individuals/km, respectively. The presence of Lepilemur dorsalis was confirmed by camera trap. This is the first time lemurs have been studied in cacao plantations, and understanding how these threatened animals use anthropogenic landscapes is vital for their conservation.","PeriodicalId":50437,"journal":{"name":"Folia Primatologica","volume":"91 1","pages":"96 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000501987","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48878815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Oxygen Stable Isotope Composition in Primates Vary as a Function of Vertical Stratification or Folivorous Behaviour?","authors":"Luke D. Fannin, W. S. Mcgraw","doi":"10.1159/000502417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000502417","url":null,"abstract":"Stable isotopes of oxygen often vary within a community of primates. For example, folivorous monkeys that forage in the upper reaches of the forest canopy tend to evince high δ18O values, whereas those that prefer the understory tend to have lower δ18O values. Given that leaves also have high δ18O values, particularly higher in the canopy, there is uncertainty as to which behavioural variable – vertical stratification or folivory – is the primary determinant of variation in δ18O values. Here, we explore further δ18O values from the Taï Forest monkeys (n = 7 species; n = 33 individuals) by examining the interaction between diet and vertical stratification, thereby allowing us to differentiate the effects of each covariate. We found that δ18O values varied as a function of mean canopy height, but not folivory, resolving uncertainty about the primary cause of δ18O variation. This outcome revolves largely, but not entirely, on the behaviours of Procolobus verus, a highly folivorous but understory forager. Relatively elevated values in Cercopithecus diana, a frugivorous but middle-to-high canopy forager, raises the possibility that plant reproductive tissues (e.g., fruits, flowers) may be increasingly sensitive to evaporative fractionation at higher forest canopy levels. Overall, our results further affirm the value of using δ18O values to estimate the vertical behaviour of primate species in a fossil assemblage.","PeriodicalId":50437,"journal":{"name":"Folia Primatologica","volume":"91 1","pages":"219 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000502417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45987022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Playback of Fork-Marked Lemurs’ Loud Calls in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar","authors":"D. Forbanka","doi":"10.1159/000501506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000501506","url":null,"abstract":"Primate loud calls often encode information relating to species identity. A previous study of loud calls of fork-marked lemurs (genus Phaner) indicated differences among the calls of four populations that have been accorded species status on the grounds of morphology and biogeography: Phaner electromontis, P. parienti, P. furciferand P. pallescens. I made field recordings of two typical calls (kiu and kea) emitted by all four populations and conducted playback experiments in Kirindy Forest to investigate whether free-ranging P. pallescensindividuals could discriminate the loud calls of their own species from those of others. Individual response behaviour, social context and call type used in playback were analysed using a goodness-of-fit G test. The effect of specific call identity was significant, while the effects of context and call type were not. Individuals responded to P. pallescens calls by approaching the speaker, but not to the calls of other populations. P. pallescens individuals appear to be capable of distinguishing the loud calls of their conspecifics, but the fact that the habitat structure of the sites of recording and playback of P. pallescenscalls was similar sounds a note of caution. Future studies should repeat the experiments with the other populations of fork-marked lemurs.","PeriodicalId":50437,"journal":{"name":"Folia Primatologica","volume":"91 1","pages":"83 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000501506","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44202159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of Activity Budgets, Diet, and Habitat Utilization between Provisioned and Wild Groups of the François’ Langur (Trachypithecus francoisi) in Mayanghe National Nature Reserve, China","authors":"Jie Liu, N. Bhumpakphan","doi":"10.1159/000500444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000500444","url":null,"abstract":"The endangered François’ langur (Trachypithecus francoisi) is only found from southern China to northeastern Vietnam. This study evaluates behavioral differences between provisioned (Ts, 7 individuals) and wild (Tn, 13 individuals) family groups in Mayanghe National Nature Reserve, China. Scan sampling every 5 min for 12 h daily between the months of March 2013 and February 2014 was used to record behaviors in seven categories. Tn exhibited three main feeding periods daily, whereas Ts showed more variable behavioral patterns that relied on provisions. The Tn alpha male showed twice the amount of guarding behavior compared with the Ts alpha male. The proportion of each habitat type utilized differed significantly between Tn and Ts (χ2[4] = 17,131.4, p < 0.01). Additionally, dietary diversity differed between the two groups: Tn fed on 61 plant species, whereas Ts fed on 43 plant species. Tn rarely ate sweet potato and corn other than discarded remnants of human food (0.2% of their total food sources), whereas these foods represented 21.8% of Ts food sources. We compared data for the two troops to understand this species’ activities under human interference, in particular to determine whether provisioning is a suitable strategy for their conservation.","PeriodicalId":50437,"journal":{"name":"Folia Primatologica","volume":"91 1","pages":"15 - 30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000500444","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49255487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cristina Jasso del Toro, R. Mondragón-Ceballos, G. Gutiérrez-García
{"title":"Potential Food Availability Influences Social Interactions of Young Individuals in a Neotropical Primate (Alouatta palliata)","authors":"Cristina Jasso del Toro, R. Mondragón-Ceballos, G. Gutiérrez-García","doi":"10.1159/000501408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000501408","url":null,"abstract":"Deforestation is widely recognised as an agent of human disturbance that causes widespread destruction of species habitats and can result in animals occupying forest patches with limited food resources. When animals are forced to change habitats, they must also adjust their diet, activity budgets and social behaviour in response to facing new ecological and environmental conditions. Only a few studies have analysed the influence of habitat conditions on social interactions of immature howler monkeys. In this study, we examined the effects of variation in food availability on social interactions of young howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata mexicana). This was accomplished by observing infant and juvenile members of two groups inhabiting a continuous forest habitat (640 ha) and three groups living in different-sized forest fragments (4, 42 and 93 ha) for a 15-month non-consecutive period. We quantified the Potential Food Availability Index (PFAI) for each habitat type based on the basal area, the Shannon-Wiener diversity index and abundance of food tree species. We used 15-min focal animal sampling to record the occurrence and/or duration of affiliative and agonistic behaviours. In habitats with higher PFAI, we observed more social play and proximity in infants aged 4–7 months, grooming in infants aged 8–14 months and social play in juveniles. Conversely, juveniles’ grooming rates and 0- to 3-month-old infants’ proximity rates decreased as PFAI increased. Our results suggest that food resource variation influences young howler monkeys’ social interactions. The reduction in social interactions due to low food availability may represent an energy-saving strategy to cope with limited resources in habitats disturbed by anthropogenic activities.","PeriodicalId":50437,"journal":{"name":"Folia Primatologica","volume":"91 1","pages":"31 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000501408","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47405675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Female Power: A New Framework for Understanding “Female Dominance” in Lemurs","authors":"Rebecca J. Lewis","doi":"10.1159/000500443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000500443","url":null,"abstract":"Female dominance is often associated with lemurs. However, consensus does not exist among primatologists on how to define, measure, or explain female dominance. This review explores the utility of applying a broader concept of power to understanding lemur intersexual relationships. In this framework, power is defined as arising from an asymmetry in a dyadic relationship and can be divided into 2 types: dominance and leverage. Intersexual asymmetries based upon females having superior fighting ability are considered female dominance. However, economic power also exists, and females with resource-based power exhibit female leverage. Additionally, power has 4 characteristics (base, means, amount, and scope) that describe the precise nature of observed phenomena. This article utilizes the 4 characteristics outlined in the power framework to review the existing “female dominance” literature for lemurs and highlights the value of adopting both an expanded concept of power and a more precise language. By placing the multiple phenomena currently labeled under the single term “female dominance” within the power framework, much of the confusion disappears. Thus, not only is the debate reframed, facilitating endeavors to find evolutionary explanations, but the uniqueness of female power in lemurs can be determined empirically rather than by definition.","PeriodicalId":50437,"journal":{"name":"Folia Primatologica","volume":"91 1","pages":"48 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000500443","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48638437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel R. Geerah, R. O’Hagan, W. Wirdateti, K. Nekaris
{"title":"The Use of Ultrasonic Communication to Maintain Social Cohesion in the Javan Slow Loris (Nycticebus javanicus)","authors":"Daniel R. Geerah, R. O’Hagan, W. Wirdateti, K. Nekaris","doi":"10.1159/000495077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000495077","url":null,"abstract":"Only a handful of primate taxa use ultrasonic vocalisations (those ≥20 kHz) to communicate. The extent and uses of ultrasonic communication remain poorly understood, potentially ranging from echolocation, advertisement of reproductive status and resource availability, social cohesion, to predator avoidance. Here, using active acoustics whereby the study subjects were observed throughout their activity period, we describe the first purely ultrasonic call from a strepsirrhine primate (family Lorisidae), recorded in a completely wild setting, and hypothesise about its function. We identified one type of ultrasonic call, the doublet click, from 14 Javan slow lorises (Nycticebus javanicus) produced by males and females of juvenile, subadult and adult ages within their social groups (n = 791, mean = 46.0 kHz). We ran quadratic discriminant function analysis, finding dominant frequency and doublet click duration as the key parameters for identifying individuals’ sex and age. Significantly more vocalisations were produced during affiliative social behaviour, suggesting that the call serves a social cohesion function. Considering the range of other cryptic behaviours, including slow and silent locomotion, and the high degree of territoriality associated with venomous attacks on conspecifics, the call may also serve as a safety strategy, allowing family members to regulate distance from other slow lorises and to communicate cryptically whilst avoiding predators.","PeriodicalId":50437,"journal":{"name":"Folia Primatologica","volume":"90 1","pages":"392 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000495077","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47768397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spacing and Mate Attraction: Sex-Specific Function of Advertisement Calls in the Northern Giant Mouse Lemur (Mirza zaza)","authors":"M. Seiler, Daniel Hending, K. Stanger-Hall","doi":"10.1159/000494884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1159/000494884","url":null,"abstract":"It has been proposed that primates use advertisement calls exclusively to negotiate spacing, but the function of female calls has rarely been studied. Here, we investigated the function of male and female advertisement calls in the northern giant mouse lemur (Mirza zaza),a non-gregarious nocturnal primate from north-western Madagascar. We recorded advertisement calls and associated behaviours of 35 M. zaza individuals at the Duke University Lemur Center. We found that females of M. zazaexclusively use their advertisement calls to advertise oestrus. In contrast, male advertisement calls appeared to be used in a spacing context. These findings show that primates can use their advertisement calls for both spacing and mate attraction, and that the sexes may differ in how they use these calls. The novel find of females of M. zazaattracting mates with loud advertisement calls contrasts with many non-primate taxa, where acoustic mate attraction is usually a function of male advertisement calls, and with other primates, where females use visual and olfactory cues to attract males. The loud female advertisement calls of M. zaza likely ensure mating success during the short receptive phase in this non-gregariously foraging, nocturnal primate.","PeriodicalId":50437,"journal":{"name":"Folia Primatologica","volume":"90 1","pages":"361 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1159/000494884","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42693340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}