Positional Behavior in Malagasy Primates

岛上有许多独特的动植物， 马达加斯加岛上有四十多种狐猴形灵长类动物。 就骨骼解剖学而言，这些动物代表了 最早的真灵长类动物（始新世Adapidae和 Omomyidae）。 因此，研究位置行为（姿势 和运动）对于彻底研究 了解早期灵长类动物的运动系统 虽然马达加斯加的社会行为和生态方面 狐猴是几项研究的主题， 行为没有得到详细、客观、量化的 它需要进行审查，以生成最多的数据类型， 有助于整合形态学和历史研究。 该项目的目的是收集六个方面的数据， 生活在12种狐猴群落中的一种马达加斯加狐猴 在Ranomafana国家公园。 物种的数量， 体型、系统发育多样性和微生境 通过这些动物可以进行许多重要的比较， 测试各种因素对表达的影响， 位置行为 本研究产生的结果将 与其他灵长类动物的类似研究进行比较，目的是 产生和测试的性质和规律性， 体型、栖息地结构和遗产对 灵长类动物的位置行为

Among many unique animals and plants on the island of Madagascar are more than forty species of lemuriform primates. In terms of skeletal anatomy these animals represent the best living analogues for the earliest euprimates (Eocene Adapidae and Omomyidae). Thus, a study of the positional behavior (posture and locomotion) of these animals is crucial for a thorough understanding of the locomotor system of early primates. Although aspects of social behavior and ecology of Malagasy lemurs have been the subject of several studies, positional behavior has not received the detailed, objective, quantitative scrutiny it needs in order to generate the kinds of data most useful for integration with morphological and historical studies. The purpose of this project is to collect such data for six species of Malagasy lemurs living among a community of 12 species at Ranomafana National Park. The number of species, ranges of body sizes, phylogenetic diversity, and microhabitats represented by these animals allow many crucial comparisons to be made which test the influence of various factors on the expressions of positional behavior. The results generated from this study will be compared with similar studies on other primates, with the aim of generating and testing the nature and regularity of the influence of body size, habitat structure, and heritage on primate positional behavior.