Lemoore - not just a monkey Bashny.Net

Lemurs - the most primitive members of the group of primates that includes monkeys. In our time, lemurs can be found in Madagascar, Africa and parts of Asia. Once they lived in America and Europe, where their fossils.

Today we go to Africa, where the habitat lemurs allowed to become not just a view, and the most important representatives of small mammals in this difficult struggle for survival.

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Lemurs are different from other primates long muzzle resembling a fox, as well as the fact that instead of nails on their toes - claws.



All lemurs live in trees. Not very often unable to meet the lemurs in the zoo, because they do not survive in captivity.



Lemurs live on a mixed diet which includes fruit, seeds, insects, bird eggs or meat. Some of them are active during the day, some - at night.



There are many species of lemurs, many of which are quite interesting. One species of large lemurs lives in Madagascar - "Sifaka". It has bright colors - black and white with red or brown spots. Between his hands and the body has a fold of skin, which apparently allows him to make long leaps from tree to tree.



Another group of lemurs called "true lemurs", of which thirteen species live in Madagascar. All of them have long tails and are very different in color. The smallest of the lemurs - 13 centimeters long, and the tail - as much as 15 centimeters. This so-called "mouse lemur." At times, these hearty little creatures accumulate fat around the base of the tail. During a drought, they sleep in tree hollows using to sustain fat tail.



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