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Ring-tailed Lemur 
Lemur catta
Range: Southwest Madagascar.
Habitat: Forest and adjacent open areas.
Diet: Leaves, fruit, bark, and buds.
Fun Facts:
  • They live in social groups of one or two dozen, often with more males than females!  The males have a strongly marked rank of order, but all females are dominant to males!
  • Ring-tailed Lemurs are territorial with the females, the permanent members of the group, defending intruders!
  • One or two young are born at a time.

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