Animal
Ring-tailed lemur
A daytime resident of southern Madagascar whose young travel clinging to their mother’s fur.
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A young ring-tailed lemur travels close to its mother, clinging to her fur. The female gives birth to one or two young after a pregnancy of about 135 days. Carrying offspring this way is a distinctive detail of primate family life. In the wild, ring-tailed lemurs inhabit southern Madagascar, where both forests and dry, open country occur.
They are active during the day and spend much of their lives on the ground. Their groups can number around twenty animals. Their varied diet includes fruit, seeds, leaves, young shoots and flowers, as well as insects. Animal food therefore supplements a largely plant-based menu. Among Kraków Zoo's residents, they represent primates associated with Madagascar rather than mainland Africa. They are included in the European EEP breeding programme. Kraków Zoo reported ring-tailed lemur births in May 2022, one of the documented examples of this species breeding in its collection.
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A young lemur needs no pushchair: it travels clinging to its mother's fur. After a pregnancy of about 135 days, a female gives birth to one or two young. Wild ring-tailed lemurs live in southern Madagascar, a large island off Africa. Their homes include forests and dry, open spaces.
These lemurs are active during the day and spend a lot of time on the ground. They live in groups that can contain about twenty animals. They eat fruit, seeds, leaves, shoots and flowers, sometimes adding insects to this plant-based meal. European zoos cooperate in breeding ring-tailed lemurs through EEP. Young lemurs were born at Kraków Zoo in May 2022, among other occasions. Such births are a concrete example of successive generations growing up in the zoo's care.
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