Lemurs - Ambassadors for Madagascar
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The Extinct Sloth Lemurs of Madagascar
The sloth lemurs, or Palaeopropithecidae, comprise four of the eight recognized genera of extinct lemurs and more than a third of the extinct species (Table 1; Figs. 1 and 2). Four genera are currently recognized as belonging in this family: Palaeopropithecus (the type genus), the truly gigantic Archaeoindris, the much smaller-bodied Mesopropithecus, and the midsized, recently discovered Babako...
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Lemurs, the diverse, endemic primates of Madagascar, are thought to represent a classic example of adaptive radiation. Based on the most complete phylogeny of living and extinct lemurs yet assembled, I tested predictions of adaptive radiation theory by estimating rates of speciation, extinction and adaptive phenotypic evolution. As predicted, lemur speciation rate exceeded that of their sister ...
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Feeding strategies of specialist herbivores often originate from the coevolutionary arms race of plant defenses and counter-adaptations of herbivores. The interaction between bamboo lemurs and cyanogenic bamboos on Madagascar represents a unique system to study diffuse coevolutionary processes between mammalian herbivores and plant defenses. Bamboo lemurs have different degrees of dietary speci...
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We report here definitive evidence of butchery, most probably associated with hunting, of giant extinct lemurs by early human settlers in Madagascar. Specimens of Palaeopropithecus ingens and Pachylemur insignis from two sites in southwestern Madagascar, Taolambiby and Tsirave, show classic signs of butchering. We compared these to the bones (also from Taolambiby) of butchered Propithecus verre...
متن کاملEvaluating ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) from southwestern Madagascar for a genetic population bottleneck.
In light of historical and recent anthropogenic influences on Malagasy primate populations, in this study ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) samples from two sites in southwestern Madagascar, Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve (BMSR) and Tsimanampetsotsa National Park (TNP), were evaluated for the genetic signature of a population bottleneck. A total of 45 individuals (20 from BMSR and 25 from TNP) wer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Madagascar Conservation & Development
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1662-2510
DOI: 10.4314/mcd.v1i1.44043