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Lemur's lament: When one vulnerable species stalks another
What can be done when one threatened animal kills another? Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis confronted this difficult reality when they witnessed attacks on critically endangered lemurs by another vulnerable species, a carnivore called a fosa.
In the new paper published in Ecology & Evolution, researchers describe how they were observing small groups of critically endangered diademed sifaka lemurs ( Propithecus diadema) at Betampona Strict Nature Reserve when the predator struck. (Photo: Ran Kirlian/Wikimedia Commons)The impact of predation — combined with low reproductive rates and potentially high inbreeding of the lemur population of Betampona — could affect the survival of this species at this site, researchers said. Senior authors on the study include Krista Milich and Emily Wroblewski, both assistant professors in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University.
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