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A healthy social life? Sociality and health indicators in wild red-fronted lemurs
(2022-06-29)In the last 40 years, an increasing number of studies from medicine, neurosciences, and psychology demonstrated links between many aspects of sociality, health, and fitness in humans and laboratory animals. Some studies ... -
Social relationships: key to gut microbiome composition in wild redfronted lemurs?
(2022-03-03)The gut microbiome consists of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities inhabiting the gastrointestinal tract of an animal and plays a pivotal role in the health of the host. This microbial community is highly dynamic ... -
Cognitive adaptations in two sympatric mouse lemur species occupying different ecological niches
(2021-11-16)Cognition describes an individual’s abilities to perceive, process, and act on information of the abiotic and biotic environment. The investigation of cognitive variation between individuals and species has been of interest ... -
Health consequences of group living in wild Verreaux’s sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi)
(2020-07-10)The evolution of sociality exposed individuals to several new health-related costs and benefits, which fundamentally affect their survival and reproductive success. Group living provides better access to food and mates and ... -
Cognition in the wild Individual differences in cognitive abilities and their link with fitness in a wild primate, the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)
(2020-03-09)Cognition, the process by which animals acquire, process, store and use information from their environment, plays a major role in various behaviours across all aspects of an individuals’ life. However, despite this overall ... -
Group Coordination Processes and Determinants of Leadership in Red-fronted Lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons)
(2019-12-13)For animals to enjoy the benefits of group living it is vital that they coordinate their activities despite divergent needs. The challenge this poses becomes apparent when animals are moving between resources. In this ... -
Intergroup relationships in Verreaux's sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi)
(2015-12-15)How animals achieve collective action for territorial defense and how they establish relationships between neighboring groups has recently become a central topic in the study of animal behavior. The power of a group can ... -
Determinants and outcomes of group coordination and decision-making in red-fronted lemurs (Eulemur rufifrons)
(2011-10-07)In order to reap the benefits of group-living, gregarious animals have to maintain group cohesion. However, differences among group members in terms of sex, age or physiological constitution ...