Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-11-13-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/pb-11-13-2024
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28 Mar 2024
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Male-biased dominance in greater bamboo lemurs (Prolemur simus)

Lilith Sidler, Johanna Rode-White, and Peter M. Kappeler

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Reports of male dominance in greater bamboo lemurs were not supported by data. We studied agonistic behavior in one captive group and could confirm this assertion, which sets this species apart from all other group-living lemurs.