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Lemurs Bushbabies and Aye-Ayes
Prosimian, or lower primates, include 6 families and approximately 50 species altogether. These animals represent the earliest primates on the evolutionary tree. Most are native to Madagascar, Asia, and Africa. Specialized hands and feet are a key indicator of Prosimians.
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Are the Tarsier critically endangered?
The Tarsier has eight subspecies listed by the International Union of Conservation for Nature, or the IUCN Red List, two of those are listed with a status of "endangered". The Peleng Tarsier, and the Sangihe Tarsier, are both listed as endangered with the population trend showing "decreasing". For more details, please see the sites listed below.
They look like monkeys but with big round eyes and a long middle finger with pointed nails.
How do aye ayes help the environment?
Aye-ayes help keep wood-burrowing insect populations in check. They can also pollinate large flowers for palm trees.
What other animals have similar characteristics of the fossa and the mouse lemur?
Bats are similar to the Mouse Lemur because of the sense of smell
Bobcats and the Lynx are like the Fossa because of the long tail and ears
What eats the black-and-white ruffed lemur?
Humans are the primary predator of ruffed lemurs. Juveniles may also be taken by hawks or eagles. The fossa is also a predator, but data suggests that wild ruffed lemurs avoid them by living at the very tops of the trees.
Is a aye-aye monkey a herbivore carnivore or omnivore?
Omnivorous but almost herbivorous. They do eat the occasional invertebrate, though
What is the pygmy mouse lemurs adaptation?
Claws to help climb trees to escape from human destruction
How do lemurs mate with each other?
The same way all mammals do. The male puts his reproductive organ (penis) into the females reproductive organ (Vagina), and the sperm travels through the womens organs, and to an egg.
All species of pygmy possum are particularly at risk from habitat loss. They are delicate creatures, requiring a particular habitat which is increasingly threatened due to farming , tourism and/or urbanisation. Introduced animals such as wild cats and foxes are also a problem.
Lemurs are very diverse in their appearance, including size, color, limb proportions, and how they move around. Common features of lemurs include a relatively long snout and a wet nose (rhinarium).
Visit the Wikipedia "Lemur" article for a sampling of what lemurs look like.
What happens if a lemur bites a human?
Lemur teeth are like cat teeth: The canine teeth are long and sharp, and they pierce the skin easily. Because there are bacteria in the mouth, the wound can become badly infected, and it is not uncommon for the infection to move into the blood stream (seen as a red line moving towards the heart). This requires immediate emergency treatment, including IV antibiotics.
Lemur teeth can also rip flesh, causing scarring and nerve damage, as well as damage to tendons and ligaments.
Lemurs range in size from between 30 and 60 grams (mouse lemurs, the smallest primates in the world) to the recently extinct subfossil lemurs, which reached sizes of 160 to 200 kg (350 to 440 lb), approximately the size of a female gorilla. The largest living lemur species are the Indri (Indri indri) and the Diademed Sifaka (Propithecus diadema), both weighing between 6 and 9 kg (13 to 20 lb).
It weighs 2 - 3 kg (4.4 - 6.6 lb).
Read more: http://www.animalinfo.org/species/primate/daubmada.htm#ixzz0hMGeEbQz
The hawks and eagles hunt the infants. The fossa, a nocturnal animal attacks the adult and infant lemurs at night that do not climb high enough on trees to sleep.
The biggest predators to lemurs are hawks and eagles and they usually eat the babies
What is being done to protect the Hairy eared dwarf lemur?
There are many organization and laws dedicated to saving and protecting lemur's. There are only about 1000 hairy eared dwarf lemur's left in the wild.
Lemurs are very diverse in their appearance, including size, color, limb proportions, and how they move around. Common features of lemurs include a relatively long snout and a wet nose (rhinarium).
Visit the Wikipedia "Lemur" article for a sampling of what lemurs look like.
How many mouse lemurs are there left in the world?
There are currently (as of 2008) 99 species and subspecies known. Most of those species have yet to be evaluated in terms of their conservation status. Therefore, it is impossible to say how many lemurs are left in the wild.
What does the aye aye monkey eat?
First of all, the aye-aye is not a monkey. It is a lemur, a different type of primate.
The diet of the aye-aye consists mostly of the seeds of ramy (Canarium spp.) and other plants, but also beetle and moth larvae found under the bark of trees, cankerous growths on plants, nectar, and various crops, such as coconuts, lychees, and mangos.
The most popular and widely studied is the Norway lemming. Its latin name is "lemmus lemmus."
Why is the silvery gibbon adapted to its habitat?
because they are the only silvery species of the gibbon which are not big
How many Madame Berthe's mouse lemurs are there in the wild today?
Its numbers are not known precisely because its geographic range is not entirely known due to recent changes in species classifications (taxonomy). Currently, it is found over a wide area in Madagascar, but that area is growing smaller due to reclassification of mouse lemur populations and deforestation.
