KNOW YOUR LEMURS!

Verreaux’s Sifaka Indri Fat-tailed Dwarf Ring-tailed Lemur (Propithecus verreauxi) (Indri indri) Lemur (Lemur catta) (Cheirogaleus medius) The Verreaux’s Sifaka does not need The Indri is the largest of the lemurs Ring-tailed lemurs are the most to drink water and can survive se- alive today. They are easily located Dwarf lemurs forage in solitude at intensely studied of all the lemurs: vere drought by eating the bark and and identifi ed by their eerie wailing night. During the day they congre- they are also the most easily recog- cambium of the spiny, cactus-like song. Every day the Indri descends gate, in packs of up to fi ve to a tree nisable lemur and the most common plants, Operculicarya decaryi. to the ground to eat soil, which may hole, while they sleep. Fat-tailed in captivity. They are also the most help it detoxify from the seeds it has dwarf lemurs survive long periods of terrestrial of all the lemurs. Male eaten. food shortage by storing fat in their ring-tails are equipped with scent tails! glands on their wrists which are used in “stink fi ghting” with a rival male.

Grey Mouse Coquerel’s Sifaka Black and White Greater Bamboo Lemur (Propithecus coquereli) Ruffed Lemur Lemur (Microcebus murinus) (Varecia variegata variegate) (Prolemur simus) The Sifaka of Madagascar are distin- In Madagascar, grey mouse lemurs guished from other lemurs by their Populations of wild ru ed lemurs The Greater Bamboo Lemur is the are sometimes sighted in gardens mode of locomotion: these animals are critically endangered in Mada- largest species of bamboo lemur. and roadside brush. They were maintain a distinctly vertical posture gascar, and yet the animals thrive This species is cathemeral, active thought to be the smallest living and leap through the trees using just in captivity, making this species an during the day and night throughout primate until recently disproven the strength of their back legs. Their ideal candidate for re-introduction to the year. The females of this species when the pygmy mouse lemur spectacular method of locomotion the wild, assuming protected habitat do not “park” their infants while (Microcebus myoxinus), thought to can easily propel them distances of is available. foraging, unlike other Bamboo lemur be extinct, was re-discovered. The over 20 feet from tree to tree. On species. grey mouse lemur is one of the most the ground, the animals cross tree- widespread, abundant, and adapt- less areas just as gracefully, by an able lemur species – and some actu- elegant bipedal sideways hopping. ally have a reddish pelage colour!