A Review and Interspecific Comparison of Nocturnal and Cathemeral Strepsirhine Primate Olfactory Behavioural Ecology
Table 2
Comparative interspecific profiles of scent marking behaviours among lemurid species of the genera Eulemur and Hapalemur, as derived from the published literature on these taxa [1–3, 90–113]. The patterns seen in the two pair-bonded Eulemur species, E. mongoz and E. rubriventer, are very similar to each other, and contrast in significant ways to the patterns exhibited amongst the Eulemur taxa that occur in multimale, multifemale social groups (i.e., the E. fulvus group of taxa, E. macaco, and E. coronatus).
Scent-marking behaviours
E. fulvus group
E. macaco
E. coronatus
E. mongoz
E. rubriventer
Hapalemur
Anogenital scent-mark surfaces
+
+
+
+
+
+
Urine mark
+
+
+
+
?
+
Bite mark (saliva deposition) males
+
+
+
Cheek rubbing
Teeth grinding during inter-group encounters
+
Anogenital mark Conspecifics
MF
MF
MF
MF
MF
MF
FM
FM
HeadMarking (males)
+
+
+
+
+
−
Hand/palmarmarking (males)
+
+
+
+
+
Antebrachial gland marking
Anogenital sniff (MF)
+
+
+
+
+
+
Self-marking
Observed in captivity
Observed in captivity
−
−
−
M marks tail with antebrachial glands to “stink fight” other Ms