Blue-Eyed Black Lemurs

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Blue-Eyed Black Lemurs

• By
• Sierra

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Introduction

• What has a nose like a rat, ears like a bat, and
  looks like a housecat? Females are a reddish
  brown, while males are completely black. They
  have long tales to swing tree from tree.
• Now just guess what am I?

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Description

• Blue-eyed black lemurs are more than two feet
  long. Males are black and females are a rusty
  brown and have fur. They look like a housecat
  with ears like a bat, a nose like a rat, and a
  long middle finger on both hands. They weigh
  almost five pounds.

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Life Span

• Lemurs live twenty to twenty-five years. It is
  difficult to study lemurs in the wild because
  Madagascar is far away. Also, there are very few
  of them left. Because of this, specific details
  about lemurs are currently unknown.

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Predator / Prey

• Blue-eyed black lemurs eat fruit, flowers,
  leaves, bark, insects, and tree gum. All the food
  is around them so they find it easily. Not many
  people know what kind of animals hunt them but we
  think fossas could hunt them. Nobody knows how
  they hide or escape but they would probably run
  or hide.

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Protection

• To protect themselves they would run or hide.
  They protect the babies because they ride on
  their mothers back. It is unknown how they take
  care of the older, sick, or injured members of
  their group.

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Young

• Blue-eyed lemurs take care of their young for
  five to six months. Blue-eyed black lemurs cling
  to their mothers bellies, shifting only to
  nurse. The special name for the babies is young.

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Behavior

• They are active during the day. Depending on the
  season, blue-eyed black lemurs eat different
  things. During the rainy season they eat
  primarily fruit. During the dry season lemurs eat
  leaves, flowers, nectar and seeds. The animals
  mostly stay in trees in the wild.

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Environment

• Blue-eyed black lemurs live in Madagascar. My
  animal needs to live in a rainforest, and it
  lives in trees.

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Endangered

• A lot of Madagascar has been destroyed. If people
  stop destroying Madagascars rainforest it will
  help preserve the animals.

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Other Interesting Facts

• Thirty-six kinds of lemurs are endangered.
  Fourteen others are extinct.

• Lemurs are related to monkeys and apes.
• Some lemurs can jump as far as thirty feet!

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Conclusion

• I chose this particular animal because it sounded
  interesting to study about. I have learned how
  long they live. I know what they eat and how they
  find it. We can help save this animal by stop
  destroying the rainforest of Madagascar!

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Bibliography

• Anderson, Norman D. Lemurs. New York Dodd Mead,
  1998.
• Banks, Joan. Lemurs. Jan/Feb2002. Accessed on
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• Current Science. Lemurs Going Going? 9/10/99.
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• Duke University. Lemur Center. 09-11-06.
  Accessed on 9/18/2006 http//lemur.duke.edu/animal
  s/blueeyed/
• National Geographic. Book of Mammals. Washington,
  DC National Geographic, 1981.