Tap-scanning and extractive foraging in aye-ayes, Daubentonia madagascariensis.
The trees on which aye-ayes forage contain complex communities of organisms. Aye-ayes appear to use tap-scanning behaviour, in combination with complex perceptual and inferential capabilities, to exploit these communities as a source of food. In doing so, they alter them, perhaps to their own advantage.
Erickson
C J
CJ
Department of Psychology--Experimental, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708.
D000818:Animals; D000836:Animals, Zoo; D001000:Ants; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D007313:Insecta; D007814:Larva; D007900:Lemur; D011235:Predatory Behavior