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Despite adapting to and breeding easily under captive care (and being the most popular species of lemur in zoos worldwide, with more than 2,000 captive-raised individuals), the wild population of ring-tailed lemur is listed as endangered by the IUCN Red List, due to habitat destruction, local hunting for bushmeat and the exotic pet trade. As of ...
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) female and young feasting on litchis. The ring-tailed lemur is also hypothesized to be a mammal that experiences transient masculinization, specifically during the breeding season. Androgens, such as testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT), play a pivotal role in masculinization. During transient ...
The most studied lemur, the ring-tailed lemur, has been shown to have blue-yellow vision, but lacks the ability to distinguish red and green hues. [89] Due to polymorphism in opsin genes, which code for color receptivity, trichromatic vision may rarely occur in females of a few lemur species, such as Coquerel's sifaka ( Propithecus coquereli ...
The ring-tailed lemur is an endangered species. Before people arrived in Madagascar around 2,000 years ago, the island was covered by forests. Today, approximately 80% of that forest land is gone.
Genus Lemur – Linnaeus, 1758 – one species Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Ring-tailed lemur. L. catta Linnaeus, 1758: Southwestern Madagascar: Size: 39–46 cm (15–18 in) long, plus 56–63 cm (22–25 in) tail [156] Habitat: Forest, shrubland, rocky areas, and caves ...
Keepers at Woburn Safari Park have welcomed the birth of an endangered ring-tailed lemur. The lemur was born at the safari park in Bedfordshire to parents Koko and Berenty on March 11 and weighed ...
Despite being listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN Red List and suffering from habitat destruction, the ring-tailed lemur reproduces readily in captivity and is the most populous lemur in zoos worldwide, numbering more than 2000 individuals. It typically lives 16 to 19 years in the wild and 27 years in captivity.
This family was once broken into two subfamilies, Hapalemurinae (bamboo lemurs and the greater bamboo lemur) and Lemurinae (the rest of the family), but molecular evidence and the similarity of the scent glands have since placed the ring-tailed lemur with the bamboo lemurs and the greater bamboo lemur. [5]