Tap-Scanning and Extractive Foraging in Aye-Ayes, <i>Daubentonia madagascariensis</i>

Vol. 62, No. 1-3, 1994

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The Aye-Aye: Madagascar's Most Puzzling Primate

Tap-Scanning and Extractive Foraging in Aye-Ayes, Daubentonia madagascariensis
Carl J. Erickson

Duke University, Durham, N.C., USA

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Folia Primatol 1994;62:125-135 (DOI: 10.1159/000156769)

Key Words

Daubentonia madagascariensis
Aye-Aye
Lemur
Foraging
Digit use
Prey extraction

Abstract

The trees on which aye-ayes forage contain complex communities of organisms. Aye-ayes appear to use tap-scanning behaviour, in combination with complex perceptual and inferential capabilities, to exploit these communities as a source of food. In doing so, they alter them, perhaps to their own advantage.

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Carl J. Erickson, Department of Psychology - Experimental, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 (USA)

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