This volume includes up-to-date field research on the longest-studied and best known of lemur species. It contains articles by scientists from America, Europe,

For over 50 years, primatologists have conducted studies in the wild on Madagascar's ring-tailed Lemur catta, one of the best-known primate species. These varie

The volume of studies on prosimian primates has, until recently, tended to lag well behind that of studies on the higher primates. This is so despite the fact t

The past decade has seen a steady increase in studies oflemur behavior and ecology. As a result, there is much novel information on newly studied populations, a

This book brings together information from recent research, and provides new insight into the study of lemur origins, and the ecology and adaptation of both ext