Western University Scholarship@Western Anthropology Publications Anthropology Department 7-2011 A Review and Interspecific ompC arison of Nocturnal and Cathemeral Strepsirhine Primate Olfactory Behavioural Ecology Ian C. Colquhoun The University of Western Ontario,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/anthropub Part of the Anthropology Commons Citation of this paper: Colquhoun, Ian C., "A Review and Interspecific ompC arison of Nocturnal and Cathemeral Strepsirhine Primate Olfactory Behavioural Ecology" (2011). Anthropology Publications. 54. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/anthropub/54 Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Zoology Volume 2011, Article ID 362976, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2011/362976 Review Article A Review and Interspecific Comparison of Nocturnal and Cathemeral Strepsirhine Primate Olfactory Behavioural Ecology Ian C. Colquhoun Department of Anthropology and The Centre for Environment and Sustainability, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C2 Correspondence should be addressed to Ian C. Colquhoun,
[email protected] Received 13 November 2010; Revised 2 February 2011; Accepted 17 March 2011 Academic Editor: Lesley Rogers Copyright © 2011 Ian C. Colquhoun. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper provides a comparative review of the known patterns of olfactory behavioural ecology among the nocturnal strepsirhine primates and the cathemeral lemurid genus Eulemur. Endemic to Madagascar, all Eulemur species exhibit both diurnality and nocturnality (i.e., cathemerality), and are gregarious, making them an interesting group of taxa to compare with the nocturnal strepsirhines.