caa a22 4500 475768515 CHVBK 20180406123613.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005467411880 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005467411880 Infant Killing, Wounding and Predation in Eulemur and Lemur [Elektronische Daten] [A. Jolly, S. Caless, S. Cavigelli, L. Gould, M. Pereira, A. Pitts, R. Pride, H. Rabenandrasana, J. Walker, T. Zafison] Infant killing by primates is highly controversial. Sexual selection of infanticidal males has been disputed, especially for seasonally breeding species, in which death of an infant does not advance conception of the next infant. We report attacks, infants found wounded, and predation in seasonally breeding Eulemur and Lemur at Berenty, Beza Mahafaly and Duke University Primate Center, and review cases seen elsewhere. Observed attacks leading to wounds or death conservatively total twelve by extratroop males, two by troop males, and seven by troop females. Eulemur are occasional vertebrate predators, whose prey includes infant Lemur catta. Wounds inflicted by lemurs are usually abdominal canine slashes or bites to the head, with rare eating, a pattern distinct from carnivore and raptor kills. Infant killing as inferred from corpses is more frequent than previously thought, but still rare. Adaptive advantages of killing plausibly include eliminating resource competitors of females, and sexual selection on males. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 infanticide nationallicence seasonal breeding nationallicence female aggression nationallicence immigrant males nationallicence Jolly A. Dep't of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, N.J. aut Caless S. Bolton Primate Research Team, Bolton Institute, Deane Road, BL3 5AB, Bolton, UK aut Cavigelli S. Dep't of Psychology, Duke University, 27706, Durham, N.C aut Gould L. Dep't of Anthropology, University of Victoria, E8W 3P5, Victoria, Canada aut Pereira M. Dep't of Biology, Bucknell University, 17837, Lewisburg, PA aut Pitts A. Bolton Primate Research Team, Bolton Institute, Deane Road, BL3 5AB, Bolton, UK aut Pride R. Dep't of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, N.J. aut Rabenandrasana H. Ecole Normale Supérieur, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Madagascar, BP 881, Antananarivo, Madagascar aut Walker J. 2252 South Coryell Island, 49719, Cedarville, MI aut Zafison T. Berenty Reserve, BP 54, Fort Dauphin, Madagascar aut International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/1(2000-02-01), 21-40 0164-0291 21:1<21 2000 21 10764 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005467411880 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005467411880 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jolly A. Dep't of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, N.J aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Caless S. Bolton Primate Research Team, Bolton Institute, Deane Road, BL3 5AB, Bolton, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cavigelli S. Dep't of Psychology, Duke University, 27706, Durham, N.C aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gould L. Dep't of Anthropology, University of Victoria, E8W 3P5, Victoria, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pereira M. Dep't of Biology, Bucknell University, 17837, Lewisburg, PA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pitts A. Bolton Primate Research Team, Bolton Institute, Deane Road, BL3 5AB, Bolton, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pride R. Dep't of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 08544, Princeton, N.J aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rabenandrasana H. Ecole Normale Supérieur, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Madagascar, BP 881, Antananarivo, Madagascar aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Walker J. 2252 South Coryell Island, 49719, Cedarville, MI aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zafison T. Berenty Reserve, BP 54, Fort Dauphin, Madagascar aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Primatology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/1(2000-02-01), 21-40 0164-0291 21:1<21 2000 21 10764 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer