One of a set of red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra) triplets born at Palm Beach Zoo last month. The species is critically endangered with approximately 1000 remaining on Madagascar. Kind of screams for a LOLlemur caption, now doesn’t it?
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The black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) is one of two species of ruffed lemur (Varecia sp.), although there may be as many as three subspecies of the black-and-white variety. Like many other lemur species, the black-and-white ruffed lemur is presently endangered, populations existing…
A red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.
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Ten years ago, thirteen lucky lemurs were taken from Duke's primate center and the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City, and other facilities, and let loose in their native lands in Madagascar.
These were black and white ruffed lemurs, Varecia variegata variegata. They are rain forest dwellers native to…
Specializing on locomotor ecology*, my good, long-standing friend Mary Blanchard of the University of Liverpool's Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology has been spending a lot of time on Madagascar over the past several years, and has been looking at a lot of wild lemurs. She has studied…
I completely agree, and I couldn't resist.
http://1420mhz.blogspot.com/2007/06/i-couldnt-resist.html
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One little known talent of the red-ruffed lemur is its skill at imitating happy puppies.
The black spots on its tongue mean that one of its parents was a chow.