Figure 4.

Laboratory study of mouse lemurs. Mouse lemurs have been studied in the laboratory since establishment of a breeding colony of gray mouse lemur M. murinus by J.-J. Petter and A. Petter-Rousseaux in the 1960s from a dozen individuals imported from southwest Madagascar, like the individual shown foraging in the dry deciduous forest of Kirindy Mitea National Park (A). These tiny strepsirrhine primates are docile (B) and readily maintained in enriched cages with branches or tubes simulating their arboreal habitat, and nest boxes (C) simulating the tree holes where they typically sleep in small groups (D). Photo credits: Guy Albertelli (A, C, and D).