Verreaux's Sifaka Sitting By A Tree (Propithecus verreauxi)
Island Of Madagascar
Off the East Coast of Africa
Berenty Reserve
Verreaux's Sifaka sitting by a tree in the Berenty Reserve with it's tail between it's legs. One interesting thing about lemurs is the way their hands are made. They can not use them to groom themselves. They have teeth in the very front of their mouth called grooming teeth. They use their teeth to groom their fur and can only do it in one direction.
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), or the white sifaka, is a medium-sized primate in one of the lemur families, the Indriidae. It lives in Madagascar and can be found in a variety of habitats from rainforest to western Madagascar dry deciduous forests and dry and spiny forests.
Its fur is thick and silky and generally white with brown on the sides, top of the head, and on the arms. Like all sifakas, it has a long tail that it uses as a balance when leaping from tree to tree. However, its body is so highly adapted to an arboreal existence, on the ground its only means of locomotion is hopping. The species lives in small troops which forage for food.
Four subspecies of this lemur are described. Many things are unknown about Verreaux's sifaka, their lifespan in the wild has not been approximated, but in captivity, they generally live to up to 18 years old. - Wikipedia
Verreaux's Sifaka Sitting By A Tree (Propithecus verreauxi)
Island Of Madagascar
Off the East Coast of Africa
Berenty Reserve
Verreaux's Sifaka sitting by a tree in the Berenty Reserve with it's tail between it's legs. One interesting thing about lemurs is the way their hands are made. They can not use them to groom themselves. They have teeth in the very front of their mouth called grooming teeth. They use their teeth to groom their fur and can only do it in one direction.
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), or the white sifaka, is a medium-sized primate in one of the lemur families, the Indriidae. It lives in Madagascar and can be found in a variety of habitats from rainforest to western Madagascar dry deciduous forests and dry and spiny forests.
Its fur is thick and silky and generally white with brown on the sides, top of the head, and on the arms. Like all sifakas, it has a long tail that it uses as a balance when leaping from tree to tree. However, its body is so highly adapted to an arboreal existence, on the ground its only means of locomotion is hopping. The species lives in small troops which forage for food.
Four subspecies of this lemur are described. Many things are unknown about Verreaux's sifaka, their lifespan in the wild has not been approximated, but in captivity, they generally live to up to 18 years old. - Wikipedia