Download Black and White Ruffed Lemur

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The Ruffed Lemur
lives in the humid
rainforests of Eastern
Madagascar
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The Black and White
Ruffed Lemur has a
black and white
coat also known as
a pelage with white
tuffed ears and
bright yellow eyes.
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The Ruffed Lemur
weighs about 3.54.5kg or 7.3-9.9lb
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The Lemur is about4ft
or 1.2m from the top
of its head to the tip
of its tail
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The Ruffed Lemur
eats a variety of
things. Those are
leaves, nectar,
flowers, stick insects,
and fungi. But the
main thing that it
eats is fruit.
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The Black and White
Ruffed Lemur can
have up to 1-3
infants a year.
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People are the
Lemurs predator.
They take them to
there house and
keep them as pets.
Then eventually they
die because the are
not in there habitat.
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The Ruffed Lemur is
critically in danger.
There are 10-15
individuals per
square mile. They
are increasing more
and more everyday.
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The Ruffed Lemur is endangered
because people are cutting down trees
where the lemurs live. The farmers are
also burning the trees down so they
could have more land to farm on.
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We are keeping them in zoos until the
have young. Then they release them
into the wild.
It lives up to 18 years.
To communicate they make a loud
screeching noise.
There are usually 2-15 or more lemurs in a
group at once.
 The Black and White Ruffed Lemur is the
biggest lemur ever.
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Seneca Park Zoo (Black and White Ruffed
Lemur) http:/senecaparkzoo.org
 Perth Zoo (Black and White Ruffed Lemur)
http:/perthzoo,wa.gov
 Cincinnati Zoo (Black and White Ruffed
Lemur)http:/cinncinatizoo.org
 San Francisco Zoo (Black and White Ruffed
Lemur) http;//www.sfzoo.org
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