Cumulative Early‐Life Adversities Predict Short‐ and Long‐Term Survival in a Critically Endangered Lemur ( Propithecus verreauxi )
Claudia Fichtel, Peter M. Kappeler · 2026
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Description
Claudia Fichtel and Peter Kappeler ask whether a hard start in life shadows a lemur for years, in this 2026 study. The team mined long-term records for two hundred forty-two infants of a critically endangered sifaka species in the wild. Hardships counted included losing a mother, lacking an older sibling, an older mother, a large group, and lean weather.
Piled-up hardship predicted infant survival, though no better than single causes alone. Losing a mother, lacking a sibling, and crowding each cut early survival. Rain in infancy, a stand-in for food, echoed longest, lifting the odds of reaching adulthood and of long female life.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Claudia Fichtel, Peter M. Kappeler |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |