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TIME PARTITIONING OF BEHAVIOUR
An investigation was carried
out to examine how Verreaux’s Sifaka (Propithecus v.
verreauxi) partitions its time. The five Durham team
members conducted the surveys from vantage points, after a trial
period of two days the team working in pairs would observe a
group of Sifakas behaviour. At five minute intervals from
0600 to 1800 the team would record for all visible members of the
troop which behaviour they were exhibiting (from: resting,
feeding, moving, grooming, alert, vocalising, aggressive).
These data are illustrated below in figures 5 to 7 showing how
the proportion of resting feeding and overall time partitioning
over the daily cycle.
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