Sight or scent: lemur sensory reliance in detecting food quality varies with feeding ecology.

Visual and olfactory cues provide important information to foragers, yet we know little about species differences in sensory reliance during food selection. In a series of experimental foraging studies, we examined the relative reliance on vision versus olfaction in three diurnal, primate species wi...

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Main Authors: Julie Rushmore, Sara D Leonhardt, Christine M Drea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3411707?pdf=render