Reproductive inequality, or reproductive skew, drives natural selection, but has been difficult
to assess, particularly for males in species with promiscuous mating and slow life histories …

This article is part of a Special Issue (Chemosignals and Reproduction). As highly visual
animals, primates, in general, and Old World species (including humans), in particular, are …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

The last decade's lemur research includes successes in discovering new living and extinct
species and learning about the distribution, biogeography, physiology, behavior, and …

The mammals that inhabit Madagascar are among the most extraordinary in the world. This
portable guide offers a full survey and classification of all the Malagasy mammals, both …

The mating system and social organization of the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus)
was investigated in two three‐month field studies (covering a period before, during, and after …

In mammals with solitary females, the potential for males to monopolize matings is relatively
low, and scramble competition polygyny is presumed to be the predominant mating system …

In order to remain stable, dispersed social groups have to solve two fundamental problems:
the coordination of movement and cohesiveness within a group and the spacing between …

While acoustic signalling by males is known to affect male–male competition, mate attraction
and the timing of ovulation, the extent to which sexual selection has shaped the evolution of …

Background A central question in evolutionary biology is how cryptic species maintain
species cohesiveness in an area of sympatry. The coexistence of sympatrically living cryptic …