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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Consumption of cyanogenic bamboo by a newly discovered species of bamboo lemur
American Journal of Primatology, Volume 19, No. 2, Year 1989
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Three species of bamboo‐eating lemurs were found to be sympatric in the southeastern rain forests of Madagascar. Sympatric species generally differ in habitat utilization or diet, but these three closely related bamboo lemurs lived in the same habitat and all ate bamboo. Behavioral observation revealed that they did select different parts of the bamboo, and chemical analyses confirmed that there was a difference in the secondary compound content present in those selections. The growing tips of Cephalostachyum ef uiguieri selected by the golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemuraureus) contained 15 mg of cyanide per 100 g fresh weight bamboo while the leaves of C. perrieri selected by the gentle bamboo lemur (H. griseus)and the mature culms of C. cf uiguieri selected by the greater bamboolemur (H. simus) did not contain cyanide. Since each individual golden bamboo lemur ate about 500 g of bamboo per day, they daily ingestedabout 12 times the lethal dose of cyanide. The mechanism by which this small primate avoids the acute and chronic symptoms of cyanide poisioning is unknown. Copyright © 1989 Wiley‐Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company
Authors & Co-Authors
Glander, Kenneth E.
United States, Durham
Duke University
Wright, Patricia Chapple
United States, Pasadena
California Institute of Technology
Seigler, David S.
United States, Urbana
University of Illinois Urbana-champaign
Randrianasolo, Voara
Madagascar, Antananarivo
Parc Botanique et Zoologiquecle Tsimbazaza
Randrianasolo, Bodovololona
Madagascar, Antananarivo
Parc Botanique et Zoologiquecle Tsimbazaza
Statistics
Citations: 5
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1002/ajp.1350190205
ISSN:
02752565
e-ISSN:
10982345
Study Locations
Madagascar