CU-Boulder-led team finds first evidence of primates regularly sleeping in caves
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 18:30
in Biology & Nature
A new study led by CU-Boulder has shown Madagascar's ring-tailed lemurs are the only wild primates in the world that sleep in the same caves on a nightly basis. 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.