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Team finds first evidence of primates regularly sleeping in caves
Scientists have discovered that some ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar regularly retire to limestone chambers for their nightly snoozes, the first evidence of the consistent, daily use of the same caves and crevices for sleeping among the world’s wild primates.
The ring-tailed lemurs may be opting to sleep in caves for several reasons, said University of Colorado Boulder anthropology Associate Professor Michelle Sauther, who led the study. While the cave-sleeping behavior is likely important because it provides safety from potential predators, it also can provide the primates with access to water and nutrients, help to regulate their body temperatures during cold or hot weather and provide refuge from encroaching human activities like deforestation, she said.
“The remarkable thing about our study was that over a six-year period, the same troops of ring-tailed lemurs used the same sleeping caves on a regular, daily basis,” she said. “What we are seeing is a consistent, habitual use of caves as sleeping sites by these primates, a wonderful behavioral adaptation we had not known about before.”
Photo “Ring-tailed Lemur family” by Tracie Emerson #500px http://t.co/Ep455wP3dR
Meet the ring-tailed lemur. This animal is one angry motherfucker. You gotta have something and this animal has anger. It is angry solo. It is angry in groups. It could lift things off the ground with the sheer force of its anger. It is a gloriously angry animal. It is angry because your dumb ass is photographing it sitting on a rock. It is angry because it hates this annoying fly so much it wants to kill it with its own paws to make it go away. In fact, it just wants to destroy everything. Make no mistake, it knows it’s awesome. Look at it. It knows it has an awesome tail. It will wrap it around its own neck and wear it as a shawl because it gets cold outside and because fuck you. This animal feeds on anger. Anger, for this animal, is a constructive force because anger makes it get the fuck up and do things, like smash things, for example.
Source: 500px.com
