Ring-Tailed Lemurs

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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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