BY NICK AND DALTONLemurs

Habitat

Live on The island of Madagascar of The coast of Africa

Forest, from dry wood lands to forest

Most spend their time in trees and bushes ring tail spends most of it’s time on ground

No because they live on the ground or in trees

Appearance

Long pointy noise excellent sense of smell

Flexible toes and fingers Like a small monkey with

long, strong rear legs, a long tail and for ward facing parallel eyes color black and white black and red black and grey brown

15/18 long tail 20/25 4/8 lbs Tails help balance when leap

from tree to tree It is a primate which means

its related to apes and humans

Eating Habits

Plants and young insects Tapes the tree with its

long fingers if it hears a hollow spot it knows bugs might be under the bark to find out the aye/aye bites in to the tree its sharp teethes rip open a hole then it uses its long fingers to scoop up the insects yummy;

Omnivore

Behaviors and Interesting Facts

Big lemurs have one baby small lemurs have more than 1 or 4 babies

They hide there babies or attack as a group mostly they ovoid them

Hibernate or migrate no They use smell to

communicate and they have sent on the bottom of there feet to leave odors other smell

Tails wave in the communication

Typical lemur like ring-tailed are large and noisy living in social groups

RESOURCES

Yahoo Kids http://kids.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=lemur

Kids Planet http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/ring-tailed_lemur.php

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