Squealing rate indicates dominance rank in the male ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)

Squeals are sharp and forceful short-range vocalizations used as aggressive and submissive agonistic signals by many mammalian species. The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), a female-dominant strepsirhine primate, has a male-specific squeal call with proposed male–male agonistic functions and male–female courtship functions that have never been empirically tested. The goal of my study is to clarify […]