The lemur

04/23/2024

04/20/2024

WELCOME TO THE WORLD! 🌎 This is Helios. He's a red ruffed lemur born at the Nashville Zoo & his species is critically endangered.

📸 Nashville Zoo

04/20/2024

Ring-tailed Lemur, Madagascar
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04/19/2024

Did you know red-fronted lemurs are night owls during the dry season? These clever critters adjust their activity to nighttime to beat the heat and evade predators when forest cover is sparse.

📷: Samuel DeRycke
[A red-fronted lemur hangs from a branch in a dry forest.]

04/19/2024

Cautious and timid by nature, they can, however, gradually get used to a person and begin to trust him. True, it will take a lot of time.

04/19/2024

Lemurs live in very friendly families from 3 individuals to 25-30. Families are dominated by females, they choose what to eat and with whom to mate.

04/16/2024

Local Spencer Bell hopes to capture the lemur to send it to a Texas rescue.

04/16/2024

The language of lemurs is quite poor. To communicate with relatives, they use only 12 sounds, similar to either grunting or purring.

04/14/2024

How do lemurs live?
They live in tropical forests, climb well, run and jump on tree branches. They have grasping paws with well-developed strong fingers, which they use to cling to branches or bark irregularities. They feed on fruits, berries, leaves, flowers, some also on bark, insects, and their larvae.

04/12/2024

04/12/2024

How do lemurs communicate?
Lemurs communicate with the help of smells, or rather, musk glands located on the wrists, chest and near the ge****ls. They are very emotional, talkative and actively use facial expressions to convey information to each other.