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Ring-Tailed Lemurs
  • ByMorgan

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Introduction
  • Its tail is long, striped with black and white.
    You can find it Madagascar. What is it?

A ring-tailed lemur!
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Description
  • A ring-tailed lemur weighs 13 pounds, 2 ounces.
    It has a body of 16 inches and a tail of 23
    inches long. They have red eyes, a black and
    white striped tail, a brown body, and a white
    face. They also have a nose like a rat and ears
    like a bat, and they look like a house cat.

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Life Span
  • Ring tailed lemurs can live up to 40 years in
    captivity. It is better to be young in the group
    because everyone cares for you. Females live as
    long as males.

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Predator/Prey
  • Lemurs have been taken into captivity to protect
    them from the threats of their habitat being
    destroyed by logging, farming, and housing for
    humans. Cats and birds of prey are enemies of
    ring-tailed lemurs. To escape, they run away or
    hide.
  • The ring-tailed lemur eats fruit, flowers,
    leaves, bark, insects, and tree gum. Lemurs bite
    a hole in the bark with their sharp teeth to get
    to insects. They use their nails to pull the
    insects from the trees to eat. Lemurs quench
    their thirst with juicy fruits and chew them with
    their back teeth so juice does not get on their
    fur.

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Protection
  • Male lemurs rub their tail against scent glands
    in their wrists. And then they wave their tail in
    the direction of an enemy. Males call loud
    signals to warn sick, young, old or injured
    members of their group. Some of these signals are
    similar to barking.

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Young
  • Usually, lemurs have one young, but sometimes
    2-3 are born. A ring-tailed lemur will be
    pregnant for 5 months and will have 1-3 babies.
    She will not mate until late April or May, and
    will not have another baby for a year. We call
    their babies young or offspring.
  • After a young is born, it clings to its mothers
    underside. A young can take off at about 3 weeks
    but stays close to mother until about 6 months.
    They take care of their young for about 6 months.

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Environment
  • A ring-tailed lemur needs a rainforest to live
    in. You can find the ring-tailed lemur in
    Madagascar.

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Behavior
  • Ring-tailed lemurs like to sun themselves. They
    move as easy on the ground as they do jumping
    from tree to tree. They can jump as far as 30
    feet! Lemurs like to spend a couple hours
    sunbathing during the day. Lemurs are more active
    during the day, but less active during the night.

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Endangered
  • We built a park in 1991 for lemurs, to hopefully
    save lemurs. My animal is endangered because a
    lot of Madagascars forest area is destroyed.

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Other Interesting Facts
  • Did you know the ring-tailed lemur is more
    related to you than they are to raccoons? Did you
    know that lemurs are related to monkeys and apes?
    36 kinds of lemurs are endangered. 14 others are
    extinct.

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Conclusion
  • I chose this animal because they looked
    interesting. I have learned that lemurs are more
    related to us than they are to raccoons.
    Ring-tailed lemurs habitat is being destroyed
    for farming. To save the lemur, we can stop
    destroying their rainforest.

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Bibiliography
  • Anderson, Norman D. Lemurs. New York Dodd Mead,
    1984.
  • Banks, Joan. Lemurs. Jan/Feb 2002. Accessed on
    18 Sept. 2006 lthttp//web.ebscohost.comgt
  • Christie, Laurie. Assistant Education Programs
    Manager Indianapolis Zoo. Personal interview in
    September 2006.
  • Defenders of Wildlife. Ring-Tailed Lemur.
    Accessed on 09 Oct. 2006 lthttp//www.kidsplanet.or
    g/factsheets/lemur.htmlgt
  • Encyclopedia of Animals. Ring-Tailed Lemur.
    Accessed on 18 Sept. 2006 lthttp//web.ebscohost.co
    mgt
  • Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.
    Lemur. 2002. Accessed on 18 Sept. 2006
    lthttp//web.ebscohost.comgt
  • Honolulu Zoo. Ring-Tailed Lemur. Accessed on 07
    Oct. 2006 lthttp//medicine.ucsd.
    edu/cpalindxfs.htmlgt
  • Monkeyshines and the Primates The Study of
    Primatology. Family Lemuridae. 2001. Accessed
    on 18 Sept. 2006 lthttp//web.ebscohost.comgt
  • PBS. Creature World Ring-Tailed Lemur. Accessed
    on 11 Sept. 2006 lthttp//www.pbs.org/kratts/world/
    africa/lemur/gt
  • Stonehouse, Bernard. A Visual Introduction To
    Monkeys And Apes. New York Checkmark, 2000.
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