#ring-tailed lemurs

[animalphotorefs]

Species Update: Ring-tailed and Red-Ruffed Lemurs!

Folks, I have some great news for you. I took photos of a bunch of other animals on the baby capybara trip, obviously, and one thing to come of it is... lemur action shots!

These are all now live on the website.

I also added a bunch of older lemur photos that hadn't made it online yet, because why not?

Find many, many more at these links:

Ring-tailed Lemurs — Animal Photo Reference Repository

Red Ruffed Lemurs — Animal Photo Reference Repository

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[sitting-on-me-bum]

Troop of Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) walking over rocks at dusk, Anja Park, Madagascar. Endangered.

Lorraine Bennery

[funny-cute-weird]

Source: floridapfe /Flickr

[antiqueanimals]

The New Natural History. Written by Richard Lydekker. 1901.

[oneanimalpictureaday]

Ring-tailed lemurs from Warsaw Zoological Garden. I really wish I could pet one of those one day (yes, I’m aware it’d be a bad idea)

Fact from the Smithsonian's National Zoo: “A ring-tailed lemur mob will gather in open areas of the forest to sunbathe. They sit in what some call a "yoga position" with their bellies toward the sun and their arms and legs stretched out to the sides.”

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[reginald-charles]

Houston Zoo, TX 1.13.2019

lemurs

Reginald Charles Photography

[weirdnaturalscience]

thatswhatitoldher: I’m really good at solving puzzles ? But only while wearing sunglasses

A tough one! I present to you a crafty, clever, puzzle-solving animal with large dark spots around its eyes. None other than the ring-tailed lemur!

Possessing a truly magnificent tail (which is irrelevant to this discussion), the ring-tailed lemur is extremely intelligent and capable of deceiving humans in order to steal food. 

Like most lemurs, the ring-tail is an extremely quick learner. Researchers tried to test if different primates could learn to press different buttons with their hands to receive food and the lemurs were initially disqualified because they prefer to use their noses. Once researchers accepted the nose-booping lemur method, the lemurs were able to score extremely high on the intelligence test, solving different puzzles through trial and error and then remembering the correct way to get the food.

In addition to being smart about all the ways to get chomping on tasty snacks, these lemurs can remember sequences of information and even understand basic arithmetic! Stylish little bastards.