Colour and odour drive fruit selection and seed dispersal by mouse lemurs

Animals and fruiting plants are involved in a complex set of interactions, with animals relying on fruiting trees as food resources and fruiting trees relying on animals for seed dispersal. This interdependence shapes fruit signals such as colour and odour, to increase fruit detectability and animal sensory systems, such as colour vision and olfaction to facilitate food identification and selection. Despite the ecological and evolutionary …