Table of Contents

Origins.- How Primates Invented the Rainforest and Vice Versa.- “Visual Predation,” Habitat Structure, and the Ancestral Primate Niche.- Pattern and Process in Strepsirhine Phylogeny.- Life History.- Predation, Pollination and Torpor in Two Nocturnal Prosimians: Cheirogaleus major and Microcebus rufus in the Rainforest of Madagascar.- Determinants of Nighttime Activity in “Diurnal” Lemurid Primates.- Life History Variation among Nocturnal Prosimians.- Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Copulatory Behavior in Nocturnal Prosimians.- The Bioenergetics of Reproduction in Prosimian Primates: Is It Related to Female Dominance?.- History, Anatomy, Subfossil Record and Management of Daubentonia madagascariensis.- Taxonomy and Phylogeny.- Phylogenetic Relations among Prosimii with Special Reference to Lemuriformes and Malagasy Nocturnals.- Phylogenetic Studies of Glutathione-Metabolizing Enzymes in Primate Lenses.- Species Diversity in Lorisids: A Preliminary Analysis of Arcticebus, Perodicticus, and Nycticebus.- The Subspecies of Loris tardigradus and Their Conservation Status: A Review.- Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization Reveals Homologies among Tarsier, Galago and Human Karyotypes.- Captive Behavior.- Behavior of Captive Loris tardigradus nordicus: A Qualitative Description, Including Some Information about Morphological Bases of Behavior.- Perspectives on Percussive Foraging in the Aye-Aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis).- Right Hand Preference and Performance Biases in the Foraging Behavior of the Aye-Aye.- Laterality in African and Malagasy Prosimians.- Vocal and Chemical Communication.- Acoustic Communication in Nocturnal Prosimians.- Species Diversity among Galagos with Special Reference to Mate Recognition.- Vocalizations of Some Cheirogaleid ProsimiansEvaluated in a Phylogenetic Context.- Chemocommunication in the Reproductive Function of Mouse Lemurs.- The Accessory (Vomeronasal) Chemoreceptor System in Some Prosimians.- Toxins and Toothcombs: Potential Allospecific Chemical Defenses in Nycticebus and Perodicticus.- Social Organization.- Social Organization and Food Constraints.- Social Organization in the Aye-Aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) and the Perceived Distinctiveness of Nocturnal Primates.- Locomotion.- Locomotion in Nocturnal Prosimians.- Functional Morphology of Leaping Behaviors in Galagids: Associations between Landing Limb Use and Diaphyseal Geometry.- Locomotor Adaptations of Eocene Primates: Adaptive Diversity among the Earliest Prosimians.- Conservation.- Captive Conservation and the Role of the AZA Prosimian Advisory Group.- The Role of Studbooks in Conservation and Captive Management of Nocturnal Prosimians.- The Madagascar Fauna Group.- Aye-Aye Conservation: The Role of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust.- The Nocturnal Prosimian Colony at the Duke University Primate Center.- A New Role for the Military: Environmental Protection and Restoration.- Afterword.- Prosimians: From Obscurity to Extinction?.

Reviews

`This volume contains a wealth of information, much of it new and exciting, from many aspects of nocturnal prosimian biology.'
The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 1997