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The social system of the Masoala fork-marked lemur has been described as pre-gregarious. Some adults live as monogamous couples, sharing the same nest hole by day but moving about independently for at least part of the night (the male often follows a few metres behind the female), but a few live as solitary bachelors or have ranges overlapping more than one female.
Fork-marked lemurs are among the least studied of all lemurs, and little is known about them. [6] Only the pale fork-marked lemur (P. pallescens) has been studied relatively well, primarily by Pierre Charles-Dominique, Jean-Jacques Petter, and Georges Pariente during two expeditions in the 1970s and a more extensive 1998 study in Kirindy Forest ...
Masoala fork-marked lemur. P. furcifer Blainville, 1839: Northeastern Madagascar: Size: 22–29 cm (9–11 in) long, plus 28–37 cm (11–15 in) tail [76] Habitat: Forest [77] Diet: Gum, as well as insects [76] EN Unknown [77] Pale fork-marked lemur. P. pallescens Groves & Tattersall, 1991: Western Madagascar
Drawing of a flea by Robert Hooke ... that the adult male Masoala fork-marked lemur has a cutaneous gland on the throat which is rubbed against the female during ...
Only the Masoala fork-marked lemur (Phaner furcifer) and Coquerel's giant mouse lemur regularly consume tree sap. Bark has never been reported as an important food item in lemur diets, but at least four species eat it: the aye-aye, the red-tailed sportive lemur ( Lepilemur ruficaudatus ), the common brown lemur ( Eulemur fulvus ), and Verreaux ...
Coquerel's giant mouse lemur or Coquerel's dwarf lemur, Mirza coquereli; Northern giant mouse lemur, Mirza zaza; Genus Allocebus. Hairy-eared dwarf lemur, Allocebus trichotis; Genus Phaner: fork-marked lemurs Masoala fork-marked lemur, Phaner furcifer; Pale fork-marked lemur, Phaner pallescens; Pariente's fork-marked lemur, Phaner parienti
Masoala fork-marked lemur; N. Northern giant mouse lemur; P. Pale fork-marked lemur; Pariente's fork-marked lemur; R. Red ruffed lemur; Ring-tailed lemur; Ring-tailed ...
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