Lemur (Ring-tailed)
Native To
Madagascar
Fun Facts
- Endangered in the wild as a result of habitat destruction, being hunted for meat and the illegal wild pet trade.
- Male Ring Tailed Lemurs put smells, from glands in their bottoms, on their tail and wave it at rivals. It’s known as ‘stink fighting’!
- They belong to the primate order but Lemurs are prosimians which means ‘before monkeys’.
- A group of lemurs is called a troup
- The Ring-tailed lemurs are social creatures, forming female-dominated units of 3-20 individuals
Diet
Omnivores. In the wild they generally consume plants, leaves, flowers, nectar, fruit, sap, and bark, often supplementing their usual diet with insects, and small birds. In Madagascar Tamarind trees can provide up to half of the food a lemur eats in a given season.
We buy in Tamarind fruits year round as part of their varied diet, daily fresh browse and specialised primate leaf eater pellets to snack on between meals.
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