презентация "Ring-tailed lemur"

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The ring-tailed lemur is a large primate and the most recognized lemur due to its long, black and white ringed tail. It belongs to one of five lemur families, and is the only member of the Lemur genus

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Like all lemurs it is endemic to the island of Madagascar. Known locally in Malagasy as maky or hira , it inhabits gallery forests to spiny scrub in the southern regions of the island.

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Anatomy and physiology The ring-tailed lemur is a relatively large lemur. Its average weight is 2.2 kilograms. Its head–body length ranges between 39 and 46 cm, its tail length is 56 and 63 cm, and its total length is 95 and 110 cm.

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The genus name Lemur was created by Carl Linnaeus, the founder of modern binomial nomenclature , to describe only three species.

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The ring-tailed lemur eats fruits and leaves, particularly those of the tamarind tree. The ring-tailed lemur eats from as many as three dozen different plant species, and its diet includes flowers, herbs, bark and sap. It has been observed eating decayed wood, earth, spider webs, insect cocoons, arthropods (spiders , caterpillars, cicadas and grasshoppers) and small vertebrates (birds and chameleons).

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The ring-tailed lemur is highly social, living in groups of up to 30 individuals.

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