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Ring-tailed lemurs are unmistakable because of their long, vividly striped, black-and-white tail. They are familiar residents of many zoos. These are from Philadelphia Zoo.
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Lemurs in trees are a very common sight. These primates are mainly found in Madagascar and have features adapted for arboreal living, such as flexible limbs and strong grasping abilities. Lemurs leap between the tree canopies, searching for food and avoiding predators. Their diet primarily includes fruits, leaves, and flowers, and they occasionally eat insects and small vertebrates. Lemurs in trees usually form small groups and use various sounds and scent markings to communicate and mark their territories.
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Lemurs face an array of dangers across Madagascar, the only place where they exist in the wild. Some people hunt them, or even collect babies for the pet trade, but the single greatest threat to lemurs is the same thing causing most wildlife declines around the world: habitat loss, driven by everything from logging and agriculture to climate change.
This Ring-tailed Lemur was interested in my camera . Taken at Paradise Wildlife Park .nr. Broxbourne, Herts. Unfortunately he was behind glass .hence the fluff & dirt.
These adorable lemurs, found only in Madagascar, were a little shy but this one posed nicely for a few minutes. Taken in Madagascar on our trip to Africa in 2013. Love those eyes.
This one's for you, Cathy. Nice to see you and Terry the other evening.
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Black & White Ruffed Lemur ~ Howletts Wildlife Park ~ Canterbury ~ Kent ~ England ~ Friday 1st January 2016.
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I managed to capture this Black and White Ruffed Lemur at Howletts Wildlife Park in kent...twas certainly a good way to spend the 1st day of the Year..:)
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The Duke Lemur Center is the world’s largest and most diverse collection of lemurs outside of Madagascar. It is an 85-acre sanctuary for rare and endangered prosimian primates, located at Duke in Durham, North Carolina. If you want to learn about lemurs, it is an educational and fun place to visit!
Lemurs have traditionally been regarded as being less intelligent than anthropoid primates, with monkeys and apes often described as having more cunning, guile, and deceptiveness. Many lemur species, such as sifakas and the ring-tailed lemur, have scored lower on tests designed for monkeys while performing as well as monkeys on other tests. These comparisons may not be fair since lemurs prefer to manipulate objects with their mouths (rather than their hands) and only take interest in objects when in captivity. Recent studies have shown that lemurs exhibit levels of technical intelligence on par with many other primates, although they manipulate objects less often. Tool use has not been witnessed by lemurs in the wild, although in captivity the common brown lemur and the ring-tailed lemur have been demonstrated to be able to understand and use tools.
A few lemurs have been noted to have relatively large brains. The extinct Hadropithecus was as large as a large male baboon and had a comparably sized brain, giving it the largest brain size relative to body size among all prosimians. The aye-aye also has a large brain-to-body ratio, which may indicate a higher level of intelligence. However, despite having a built-in tool in the form of its thin, elongated middle finger, which it uses to fish for insect grubs, the aye-aye has tested poorly in the use of extraneous tools.
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