Meat eating and predation in captive‐born semi‐free‐ranging Lemur fulvus and caged Lemur macaco

Abstract

A group of brown lemurs, Lemur fulvus, and a group of black lemurs, Lemur macaco, at the Duke University Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History have been observed to capture and eat birds and lizards. Although vertebrate prey are not unusual for many carnivorous prosimians, folivorous prosimians never have been observed to take vertebrates in the wild and rarely even insects. Copyright © 1985 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company