ML125310
Red-fronted Lemur Eulemur rufus
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
NOTES: adult female and later an adult male with tail-flagging periods and caller sex verbally noted on tape. Her initial tail-flagging and associated "rough grunts" isfollowed by several other group members engaging in the tail-flagging display. It is typical for flagging and "rough-grunting" to began with one highly aroused individual and then be followed by several or many other group members all flagging. Tail flagging may be a mobbing display, though some researchers feel that is it more likely a "distraction display" (Dr. P.C. Wright, personal communication). No formal data exist to firmly answer this question. NOTE GREAT "SHRIEKS" AT 6:38, 7:43, AND 8:14. Such "SHRIEKS" are given collectively by groups at dawn and dusk (in a chorus fashion) as well as by single spatially separated ("lost") individuals. LNS NOTE: Unbroken cut with internal recordist announcement/handling noise gain change (MJA, 29 June 2005). Other Behaviors: Emit Alarm, Perform Visual Display, Social Context: Troop. Habitat: Rainforest, Montane Grassland, Clearing.
Technical information
- Recorder
- SONY TC-D5 PRO II
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME 66
- Accessories
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 30 Jun 2005 - Erik R. Patel
- Digitized
- 30 Jun 2005 - Mike Andersen
- Edited
- 30 Jun 2005 - Mike Andersen