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=media type="custom" key="21171314"Ring Tailed Lemur Lemur catta = ==== **Kingdom:** Animalia  ====

**are the same with both male and females. **

 * ====long black and white tail ====
 * ====back can be grey to brown ====
 * ====face, ears and stomach are white ====
 * ====eyes are surrounded with a triangular dark brown patch of hair ====

====**Babies:** The baby lemurs begin to eat solid food at around 2 months of age, and reach sexual maturity by the age of 3. A lot of lemurs die while children as few as 30% of lemurs reach adulthood. ====

====**Size:** the ring tailed lemur is one of the larger lemur species it’s average weight is around 2.2 Kilograms. Its head-body length ranges between 39 and 49cm, its tail length 53-63cm and its total length is 95-110cm. ====

====**Breeding:** the breeding season runs from mid-April to mid-May. This period of time lasts 4-6 hours, and the females mate with multiple males during this time. Pregnancy lasts for about 135 days and birth occurs in September or occasionally October. In the wild one child is normal but twins may occur. ====

====**Habitat:** common to southern and south-western Madagascar the ring tailed lemur rangers further into highland areas than other lemurs. It lives in deciduous forests, dry undergrowth, montane humid forests and forests along riverbanks but some forests have now been cleared from Madagascar in order to create grassland for livestock. ====

====**Diet:**the ring tailed lemur is an vegetarian primarily eating fruits and leaves, practically those of the tamarind tree. When available tamarind makes up as much as 50% of the diet, especially during the dry winter season. The ring tailed lemur eats from as many as three dozen different plant species, and its diet includes flowers, herbs, bark and sap. ====

====**Why is the ring tailed lemur interesting?** Well the ring tailed lemur is interesting to me because it is the lemur on all the Madagascar movies and Maurice and king Julian are both ring tailed lemurs which is so awesome, and they just look really cool with those weird facial expressions. ====