“I am going to groom you”: Multiple forms of play fighting in gray mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus)

Authors: Sergio M. Pellis, Vivien C. Pellis

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: animal aggressive behavior, animal grooming behavior, animal play, animal sexual behavior, lemurs

2018

Aggression and hormones are associated with heterogeneity in parasitism and parasite dynamics in the brown mouse lemur

Authors: Sarah Zohdy, Donal Bisanzio, Stacey Tecot, Patricia C. Wright, Jukka Jernvall

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: behaviour, cortisol, lice, madagascar, primate, testosterone

2017

Is risk taking during foraging a personality trait? A field test for cross-context consistency in boldness

Authors: Melanie Dammhahn, Laura Almeling

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: boldness, ecological validation, grey mouse lemur, microcebus murinus, novel object test, personality, repeatability, risk taking, risk-sensitive foraging

2012

Walk the Line—Dispersal Movements of Gray Mouse Lemurs (Microcebus murinus)

Authors: S. Schliehe-Diecks, M. Eberle, P.M. Kappeler

Publication/Journal: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Keywords: dispersal movements, microcebus murinus, natal dispersal, transfer, translocation

2012

Experimental evidence for olfactory predator recognition in wild mouse lemurs

Authors: Philipp Kappel, Sarah Hohenbrink, Ute Radespiel

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: antipredator behavior, feces, fossa, microcebus, olfaction, primate

2011

Spatial memory in the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)

Authors: Mia-Lana Lührs, Melanie Dammhahn, Peter M. Kappeler, Claudia Fichtel

Publication/Journal: Animal Cognition

Keywords: correlated random walk, euclidean map, goal-directed movement, microcebus murinus, spatial cognition, topological map

2009

Visual acuity in the cathemeral strepsirrhine Eulemur macaco flavifrons

Authors: Carrie C. Veilleux, E. Christopher Kirk

Publication/Journal: American Journal of Primatology

Keywords: activity pattern, cathemerality, diet, lemuriform, primate origins, sensory ecology

2009

Olfactory predator recognition in predator-naïve gray mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus)

Authors: Dina Sündermann, Marina Scheumann, Elke Zimmermann

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: antipredator behavior, feces, innate, olfaction, primate

2008

The sensory basis of prey detection in captive-born grey mouse lemurs, Microcebus murinus

Authors: Marcus Piep, Ute Radespiel, Elke Zimmermann, Sabine Schmidt, Björn M. Siemers

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: foraging, grey mouse lemur, insectivorous, microcebus murinus, prey detection, primates, sensory ecology

2008

Aspects of reproduction in the eastern rufous mouse lemur (Microcebus rufus) and their implications for captive management

Authors: Dorothea Wrogemann, Elke Zimmermann

Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology

Keywords: breeding success, estrous cycle sex differences, primate, testicular size

2001