The predator-sensitive foraging behaviour of free-living Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) at Berenty Reserve, Madagascar.
| dc.contributor.author | Prew, Jennifer Danielle Bernadette | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Gould, Lisa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-04-29T20:18:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-04-29T20:18:23Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2008 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-04-29T20:18:23Z | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Anthropology | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | I studied the influence of microhabitat on the predator-sensitive foraging (PSF) of Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) at Berenty Reserve, Madagascar from June 11, 2007 to August 10, 2007. Three groups of sifaka from a gallery, closed-canopy forest, a riverine forest, and the spiny/scrub forest were observed. PSF was assessed by measuring the spatial location, spatial cohesiveness, and rate of vigilance, vocal, and non-vocal alarm behaviour of foraging sifaka. While there were statistically significant between-group differences in the spatial location (i.e., terrestrial, low-, mid- and high-canopy) used while foraging, there were no statistically significant inter-group differences in spatial cohesiveness, terrestrial or aerial vigilance, or in the frequency of vocal (i.e., terrestrial and aerial calls) or non-vocal (i.e., gestural) alarms. Thus, it appears that the PSF of free-living Verreaux’s sifaka is largely uninfluenced by variation in microhabitat. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1387 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en |
| dc.subject | sifaka | en |
| dc.subject | habitat | en |
| dc.subject | feeds | en |
| dc.subject | behavior | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Anthropology | en |
| dc.title | The predator-sensitive foraging behaviour of free-living Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) at Berenty Reserve, Madagascar. | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |