Determinants of terrestrial feeding in an arboreal primate: The case of the southern bamboo lemur (<i>Hapalemur meridionalis</i>)

Abstract

Our study provides a window into the ultimate determinants of niche expansion: ancestral primates, in absence of their primary resources, may have initially descended to the ground in peripheral population range areas where the benefits (e g., nutritional pay-off) out-weighed the costs.