Sentences with phrase «lemur researchers»

All around us lay base camp: a few plain cement buildings and palm - thatched tenting sites administered by Conservation International and used mostly by lemur researchers.

In Ampijoroa, lemur researchers aren't the only ones combing the forest.

As lemur researcher Alison Jolly puts it: «The world of Madagascar tells us which rules would still hold true if time had once broken its banks and flowed to the present down a different channel.»

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To study this question, the researchers focused on the grey mouse lemur, a small primate whose lifespan (around twelves years) makes it a very good model for the study of aging.

If others see their cleverness paying off, then yes — at least, that seems to be true for our primate cousins, ring - tailed lemurs (Lemur catta), report a team of Princeton University researchers.

In previous experiments, a food reward like a bunch of grapes could inspire others to approach the problem solver in hopes of poaching food, so these researchers chose to use a single grape to increase the odds that the same lemur that pulled open the drawer would also get to eat the treat.

A successful grape retrieval, the researchers discovered, increased the amount of positive attention a lemur would get.

Using DNA extracted from the remains of extinct giant lemurs like this sloth lemur (genus Palaeopropithecus), researchers aim to better understand why Madagascar's largest lemurs were wiped out, and what makes some lemur species more vulnerable to hunting and habitat loss today.

Using genetic material extracted from lemur bones and teeth dating back 550 to 5,600 years, an international team of researchers analyzed DNA from as many as 23 individuals from each of five extinct lemur species that died out after human arrival.

Few people reported having recently eaten endangered lemurs — but that may be because most know that eating lemur is illegal, Jones says; when asked directly by the researchers, they said it was taboo.

Led by Temple biology doctoral student Kim Reuter, the researchers spent three months in Madagascar surveying over 1,000 households in 17 cities and villages across the country's northern half about pet lemur ownership, which is illegal.

In a study appearing May 2 in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers report that two other little - known lemurs — Crossley's dwarf lemur and Sibree's dwarf lemur — burrow into the soft, spongy rainforest floor in the eastern part of Madagascar, curl up and spend the next three to seven months snoozing underground.

Led by Kulahci, the researchers studied the vocal interactions and grooming networks of various groups of ringtailed lemurs living at Duke University's Lemur Center and on St. Catherines Island in Georgia.

«Exactly what triggers hibernation is still an open question,» said lead author Marina Blanco a postdoctoral researcher at the Duke Lemur Center.

The Stanford researchers began to develop collaborations with other scientists studying lemurs, including those at the Centre ValBio near the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar, who have been examining lemur ecology, family structure and behavior for decades.

The mouse lemur — the world's smallest primate — has the potential to transform the field of genetics and serve as an ideal model for a wide range of primate biology, behavior and medicine, including cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers say.

Lemurs have distinctive personalities, Krasnow said, and the researchers gave each one a name, based on his or her looks or behavior.