Fruit Scent Likely Evolved to Signal Ripeness to Animals like Lemurs (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Fruit Scent Likely Evolved to Signal Ripeness to Animals like Lemurs (2 of 2)

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Red-bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 3rd, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by O. Nevo at University of Ulm in Ulm, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Fruit scent as an evolved signal to primate seed dispersal."

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N. Rowe & Centre ValBio

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