Lunar Philia in a Nocturnal Primate

作者: Sharon Gursky

DOI: 10.1023/A:1023053301059

关键词: ForagingBiologyEcologyPrimateHome rangeNocturnalAnimal ecologyAnimal communicationMoonlightPredation

摘要: The influence of moonlight on behavior has been well documented for many nocturnal mammals, including rodents, lagomorphs, badgers and bats. These studies have consistently shown that mammals respond to bright by reducing their foraging activity, restricting movement, vocalizations. Lunar phobia among is generally believed be a form predator avoidance: numerous indicate predation increases during moonlit nights. A study I conducted at Tangkoko Nature Reserve in Sulawesi, Indonesia, demonstrates spectral tarsiers, (Tarsius spectrum), are not lunar phobic, but philic; they become more active full moons. During moons, tarsiers increased foraging, decreased resting, travel (distance traveled per unit time, nightly path length, home range size), the frequency group olfactory communication. explore several potential hypotheses account lack risk resulting from this unusual behavior. Two may that: 1) efficiency moons outweighs predation, 2) greater Instead, new

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