Contents
Contributors xix
Section One: LEMUR ORIGINS, HISTORY OF ECOLOGICAL STUDIES ON LEMURS, AND THE ECOLOGY OF THE RECENTLY EXTINCT (SUBFOSSIL) LEMURS 1
1. Origin of the Malagasy Strepsirhine Primates 3
Ian Tattersall
2. Notes on the History of Ecological Studies of Malagasy
Lemurs 19
Alison Jolly and R. W. Sussman
3. Ecology and Extinction of Madagascar's Subfossil Lemurs 41
Laurie R. Godfrey, William L. Jungers, and Gary T. Schwartz
Section Two: THE EVOLUTION OF LEMUR TRAITS,
BASIC AND UNUSUAL PATTERNS 65
4. Impact of Ecology on the Teeth of Extant Lemurs: A Review of Dental Adaptations, Function, and Life History 67
Frank P. Cuozzo and Nayuta Yamashita
5. Big Is Beautiful: Fat Storage and Hibernation as a Strategy to Cope with Marked Seasonality in the Fat-Tailed Dwarf
Lemur (Cheirogaleus medius) 97
Joanna Fietz and K. H. Dausmann
6. Polyspecific Associations of Crowned Lemurs and
Sanford's Lemurs in Madagascar 111
Benjamin Z. Freed
7. Cathemerality in Lemurs 133
Deborah J. Curtis
8. Adaptations in the Aye-aye: A Review 159
Eleanor J. Sterling and Erin E. McCreless
Section Three: CONNECTING ECOLOGY AND ADAPTATION:
SUMMARIES AND NEW STUDIES 185
9. Evolutionary Divergence in the Brown Lemur
Species Complex 187
Steig E. Johnson
10. Ecological Diversity and Seasonal Adaptations of Mouse
Lemurs (Microcebus spp.) 211
Ute Radespiel
11. Social Pair-Bonding and Resource Defense in Wild
Red-Bellied Lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer) 235
Deborah J. Overdorff and Stacey R. Tecot
12. Lemur catta Ecology: What We Know and What
We Need to Know 255
Lisa Gould
13. Impact of Seasonality and Reproduction on Social
Structure, Ranging Patterns, and Fission-Fusion Social Organization in Red Ruffed Lemurs 275
Natalie Vasey
14. Ecologically Enigmatic Lemurs: The Sifakas of the Eastern Forests (Propithecus candidus, P. diadema, P. edwardsi, P. perrieri, and P. tattersalli) 305
Mitchell T. Irwin
15. Behavioral and Ecological Adaptations in Two Small Folivorous Lemurs with Different Social Organization:
Avahi and Lepilemur
Urs Thalmann
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