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Female Lemurs Benefit From Multiple Mates, Study Suggests
by Jennifer Welsh
While it may not be as socially acceptable among humans, a female choosing to take multiple mates is a common phenomenon in the animal kingdom. But why the practice of polyandry (a female having more than one male mate at a time) is so prominent is still a mystery in most species.
Most theories predict that taking multiple mates would be risky for a female without adding benefits. However, new research finds that in gray mouse lemurs, a type of small primate from Madagascar, healthy females seek out multiple mates in the few hours of one night they are receptive to mating every year. These multiple mates must confer some kind of benefit to the females, though exactly how they benefit is unknown.
“Males get benefits from mating with multiple females, because they can impregnate multiple partners,” study researcher Elise Huchard, of the German Primate Center in Göttingen, told LiveScience. “In most species, females only have a few oocytes [eggs], so mating with multiple males will not increase the number of offspring they will have.”…
(read more: Live Science) (photo: Gabriella Skollar)](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsod2jVlwc1qc6j5yo1_500.jpg)
Female Lemurs Benefit From Multiple Mates, Study Suggests
by Jennifer Welsh
While it may not be as socially acceptable among humans, a female choosing to take multiple mates is a common phenomenon in the animal kingdom. But why the practice of polyandry (a female having more than one male mate at a time) is so prominent is still a mystery in most species.
Most theories predict that taking multiple mates would be risky for a female without adding benefits. However, new research finds that in gray mouse lemurs, a type of small primate from Madagascar, healthy females seek out multiple mates in the few hours of one night they are receptive to mating every year. These multiple mates must confer some kind of benefit to the females, though exactly how they benefit is unknown.
“Males get benefits from mating with multiple females, because they can impregnate multiple partners,” study researcher Elise Huchard, of the German Primate Center in Göttingen, told LiveScience. “In most species, females only have a few oocytes [eggs], so mating with multiple males will not increase the number of offspring they will have.”…
(read more: Live Science) (photo: Gabriella Skollar)
Adorable lemurs (by pswmu79)
Conservation Endures…The first birth of 2012 | Duke Lemur Center — “Our thirteen year old Coquerel’s sifaka female, Pia, has became the first sifaka to deliver an infant this nascent 2012 birth season.” The dad is a sifaka named Jovian, perhaps better known as the lemur who starred in Zaboomafoo.
Madagascar
Duke Lemur Center: The DLC says a sad goodbye to Romeo. “Romeo was an exquisitely beautiful creature, and was gentle and responsive to his caretakers. To see him was to be enchanted by him, and for those who cared for him day in and day out, he was a vivid presence.” — Rest in peace, sweet boy.
It’s Autumn / Es ist Herbst (by Dropser)
BBC Nature - Aye aye ‘heats up’ middle finger. “Madagascar’s mysterious aye aye warms up its extra-long finger when searching for dinner, scientists have found. The lemur, the world’s largest nocturnal primate, taps its specialised middle finger on tree trunks to find nutritious beetle larvae.
Studying thermal images, researchers found that the digit was colder than the others but warmed by up to 6C during foraging. Scientists suggest that the aye aye saves energy by keeping the digit cool.”
