Ring-tailed lemurs have a black and white striped tail which is longer than their whole body! They use their tails to communicate and for balance. Ring-tailed lemurs eat fruits, flowers ...

The distribution of V. v. variegata, is poorly known (Tattersall, 1977,1982). It is found in the eastern rain forest, extending southwards from the Antainambalana River (which is the boundary between ...

Ring-tailed lemurs are unmistakable because of their long, vividly striped, black-and-white tail. They are familiar residents of many zoos. Lemurs use their hands and feet to move nimbly through ...

The other animal, a ring-tailed lemur named Mowgli, will be flown into Chicago from a zoo in New Mexico this week before coming to the wildlife refuge. According to Black Pine Animal Sanctuary ...

Ring-tailed lemurs look different! They retain a number of primitive mammalian traits. For example: Reflective tapetum lucidum, which is a layer of cells in the wall of the eye that reflects light ...

His need to “move it, move it” pretty much put these lemurs on the popularity map. This easy-to-recognize primate has a distinctive black and white ringed tail. And true to the movie’s ...

Given the threat to lemurs in the wild, it is essential to determine how human-induced habitat change is affecting their health. In 2003 a survey on the health and disease ecology of wild ring-tailed ...

The pygmy mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world. Its head and body are less than two and a half inches long, though its tail is a bit more than twice that length. These threatened ...