post your first post at UM here if you forgot yours click on the top of the page where it says Logged in as: (your username) and click on profile options then find members posts the last one is your first post here's mine topic:Top Most Intriguing Animals post:here are some facts about my favorite animals LEMURS -first they are NOT monkeys. they are prosimians (primative primates) Ring-tailed lemurs are one of the most vocal primates. They have several different alarm calls with distinct meanings to alert members of their group to potential danger.
When ring-tailed troops travel throughout their home range, they keep their tails raised in the air, like flags, to keep group members together.
Ring-tailed lemurs can spend up to 50% of their day on the ground.
Ring-tailed lemurs have scent glands on their wrists and chests that they use to mark their foraging routes. Males even have a horny spur on each wrist gland that they use to pierce tree branches before scent marking them.
Ruffed lemurs are the only primates to have true litters of offspring.
Black and white ruffed lemurs can interbreed with red ruffed lemurs -- the offspring are black, white, and red.
Ruffed lemurs produce group alarm calls when startled. It only takes one individual to begin a chorus that spreads to all ruffed lemurs within hearing range.
Red ruffed lemurs will often "join-in" the alarm calls of black and white ruffed lemurs even though the subspecies are not often found together in the wild.
Black and White Ruffed lemurs have the most frugivorous diet of any lemur.
Blue-eyed lemurs are one of two non-human primates to have truly blue eyes.
Blue-eyed lemurs are sexually dichromatic, meaning the males and females are always different colors: females are orange-brown and males are black.
Males are born brown and only begin to turn black after 5-6 weeks.
Blue-eyed lemurs can interbreed with common black lemurs, but their offspring always have brown eyes. The blue-eyed gene is thought to be recessive as in humans.
Collared lemurs are distinguished from the similar white-collared lemurs by a slightly darker beard.
Collared lemur males are brownish-gray with a dark stripe down the back, a dark tail and tail tip, and a lighter underside. Females have a reddish to brown coat and a gray face. Both sexes have a distinct beard that is reddish-brown in females and cream to reddish-brown in males.
Crowned lemurs are primarily diurnal, but they have been observed traveling and feeding at night.
A crowned lemur female is almost as likely to have twins as she is to have a single infant.
Crowned lemurs live in the same areas as Sanford's lemurs, but tend to feed lower in the forest.
Male and female crowned lemurs possess the same "crown-like" markings, but are slightly different colors: males are orange-brown while females are orange-gray.
Diademed sifaka have never reproduced in captivity.
Diademed sifaka are among the largest living lemurs.
Golden-crowned sifaka are one of the most endangered lemurs. There are estimated to be less than 10,000 left in the wild.
Eastern lesser bamboo lemurs are the smallest diurnal lemurs.
Bamboo lemurs are named for the large amounts of bamboo in their diet.
Some groups of mongoose lemurs will switch from diurnal activity to nocturnal activity at the beginning of the dry season.
Mongoose lemurs are one of only two species of lemur found on the islands surrounding Madagascar.
Mongoose lemurs are sexually dichromatic in the coloration of their "beards": males have reddish-orange fur beneath their chins while the same location on females is white.
Male mongoose lemurs are born with white beards that will turn reddish-brown when the infants are between 5 and 6 weeks old.
Aye-ayes are the largest nocturnal primates.
Aye-ayes are one of the few solitary primates.
Aye-ayes have a unique method of foraging: A large percentage of their diet consists of insect larvae that live inside dead wood. They find the larvae by tapping on branches and listening to the reverberations. When it finds a cavity in the wood (which may contain insect larvae), an aye-aye will bite through the outer layers of bark with his beaver-like teeth and reach a long, slender finger inside the hole to pull out the prey.
Aye-ayes are killed in some parts of Madagascar because they are believed to be harbingers of death or misfortune or because they are agricultural pests. In other parts of the island, however, they are revered.
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