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Social organization of free‐ranging ruffed lemurs, Varecia variegata variegata: mother‐adult daughter relationship
Abstract
The relationship between a mother and an adult daughter is examined in a group of
free‐ranging ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) at the Duke University Primate Center
(DUPC). Although the two females were affiliative during the birth season, interactions
during the mating season were predominantly agonistic. The maturing daughter was dominant
to the mother, as has been observed in many caged social groups at the DUPC. Although
both mother and daughter produced offspring in the same group, the daughter subsequently
aggressively evicted the mother from the enclosure. It was not possible to maintain
more than one long‐term resident breeding female in the same social group. This pattern
contrasts with observations of affiliation among breeding females in the wild. © 1992
Wiley‐Liss, Inc. Copyright © 1992 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/6404Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1002/ajp.1350280406Publication Info
White, Frances J; Burton, Ann S; Buchholz, Susan; & Glander, Kenneth E (1992). Social organization of free‐ranging ruffed lemurs, Varecia variegata variegata: mother‐adult
daughter relationship. American Journal of Primatology, 28(4). pp. 281-287. 10.1002/ajp.1350280406. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/6404.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Kenneth Earl Glander
Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Anthropology
Primate ecology and social organization: the interaction between feeding patterns
and social structure; evolutionary development of optimal group size and composition;
factors affecting short and long-term demographic changes in stable groups; primate
use of regenerating forests.

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