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media type="custom" key="21268580" Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur:


 * Size**: Head and body 51-60cm, tail a little longer, 3.2-4.5kg Lifespan: 15-20 years in captivity.


 * Babies**: Babies in litters, 50% twins, up to 6 babies once a year female has 6

nipples. Gestation 90-102 days weaned in 135

days. Females mature at 20 months.


 * Social life:** Monogamous pairs or groups of 5-16. The dominant female

defends the group and leads.


 * Country**: Madagascar.


 * Habitat**: Only in mountainous rainforests on the eastern coast. Duke Primate

Centre has a map of their distribution.


 * Classification**: The Ruffed Lemurs are in their own genus Varecia separate

from the other lemurs because of their unique reproductive behaviour. There

are two subspecies of Ruffed Lemurs the Red Ruffed


 * Diet**: Black and White Ruffs eat mainly fruits and are active mainly in the

evening, waking at dusk and feeding in the first half of the night. They also

snack on leaves, shoots, seeds, nectar and may even eat soil.


 * Reproduction**: Babies are born in the wet season when food is plentiful.

Ruffed Lemurs are the only lemurs to have litters of babies, usually 3, but up

to 6 at a time Unlike other primate females have 3 pairs of nipples so she can

nurse them all at the same time! Unlike other lemurs the mothether builds a nest

for her babies (lining it with fur pulled from her own body) and does not carry her babies. She stays with them for

the first 2 weeks and later leaves them in the nest while she searches __#|for food__.

My animoto below, I don't know how to put the video into the project.

http://animoto.com/play/WMGP3A2aPkD47GT15Tjyog

Explorer - Heath H