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Nocturnal species have typically received cursory attention in comparative analyses of primate social organization, and it has been assumed that their social organization is both less complex and more homogeneous than that of diurnal forms (e.g. Charles-Dominique and Martin, 1970; Martin, 1972; Charles-Dominique, 1977; Eisenberg, 1981; Fleagle, 1988). This assumption seems to have more to do with the difficulty of seeing the interactions of nocturnal species than with empirical evidence of qualitative differences in complexity. The difficulty arises partly from observation conditions at night, and partly from the fact that the interactants are often displaced from each other in space and time.
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Sterling, E.J., Richard, A.F. (1995). Social Organization in the Aye-Aye (Daubentonia Madagascariensis) and the Perceived Distinctiveness of Nocturnal Primates. In: Alterman, L., Doyle, G.A., Izard, M.K. (eds) Creatures of the Dark. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2405-9_26
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