Ringtailed Lemur Biology Lemur Catta in Madagascar /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jolly, Alison (Editor), Sussman, Robert W. (Editor), Koyama, Naoki (Editor), Rasamimanana, Hantanirina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospect
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Behavioral sciences.; Animal ecology.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Zoology.; Vertebrates.; Life Sciences.; Animal Ecology.; Behavioral Sciences.; Community & Population Ecology.
• Physical Description: XVI, 378 p. 120 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9780387341262

Ringtailed Lemur Biology is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to the Lemur catta, Madagascar's flagship species, whose black and white tails adorn tourist brochures and children's schoolbooks, and which has been studied in the wild for forty years. Written by leading research scientists in the field, this is the authoritative volume on ringtailed lemur distribution, ecology, social behavior, and health and includes the first maps of their distribution, population, and decline. The editors, and contributors, have united to produce a book of cutting edge knowledge on the lemur species whose troop structure is most like the monkeys of other continents but which proves, like so much else in Madagascar, to be unique.