High rates of extra-pair young in the pair-living fat-tailed dwarf lemur, Cheirogaleus medius

By J. Fietz, H. Zischler, C. Schwiegk, J. Tomiuk, K. Dausmann, J. Ganzhorn. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2000

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Big Is Beautiful: Fat Storage and Hibernation as a Strategy to Cope with Marked Seasonality in the Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur ( Cheirogaleus medius ) (2006, background): “Depending on climatic conditions, adults mate during November or December (Hladik et al., 1980; Fietz, 1999a) and females give birth to one or two infants after a gestation period of 61‐64 days (Figure 2). Remarkably, both sexes take extensive care of their offspring (Fietz, 1999a; Fietz et al., 20”
The Biology of Paternal Care in Human and Nonhuman Primates (2009, background): “…individual of two or more populations of genetically distinct cells that originated in different zygotes Extra-pair paternity: a male sires an infant with an individual other than the pairmate paternity and social fathers provide care to extra-pair young (Fietz & Dausmann 2003, Fietz et al. 2000).”
Extra-pair paternity in the monogamous alpine marmot (Marmota marmota): the roles of social setting and female mate choice (2006, background): “... living in solitary pairs (Peromyscus californicus, Ribble 1991; Rhinolophus sedulus, Heller et al. 1993; Madoqua kirkii, Brotherton et al. 1997; Hypogeomys antimena, Sommer and Tichy 1999; for a counter-example, Proteles cristatus, Richardson 1987) but frequent among species living in extended f”
Multiple paternity in socially monogamous prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) (2004, unknown): “Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812) (Fietz et al. 2000); Ethiopian wolves, Canis simensis (Rüppell, 1840) (Sillero-Zubiri et al.”
Evolution of Primate Social Systems (2002, background): “…care in the form of infant guarding as a mechanism to promote pair-living in some lemurs, but the empirical evidence for such an effect is weak and, in one case (Fietz et al., 2000), a large proportion of males was cuckolded, making evolutionary scenarios based on paternal certainty unlikely.”
Sex in the dark: determinants and consequences of mixed male mating tactics in Microcebus murinus, a small solitary nocturnal primate (2004, background): “Pair-living is favored where female ranges are small enough to be defended, but large/exclusive enough that it is unlikely that a male finds another mate (but see for example, Westneat et al. 1990; Fietz et al. 2000; Sch�lke and Kappeler 2003; Sch�lke et al. 2004).”