Woolly Lemurs - Woolly Lemur, Southern Woolly Lemur, Bemaraha Woolly Lemur, Ramanantsoavana's Woolly Lemur, Betsileo Woolly Lemur (Paperback)

Chapters: Woolly Lemur, Southern Woolly Lemur, Bemaraha Woolly Lemur, Ramanantsoavana's Woolly Lemur, Betsileo Woolly Lemur, Western Woolly Lemur, Moore's Woolly Lemur, Peyrieras' Woolly Lemur, Sambirano Woolly Lemur. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The woolly lemurs, also known as avahis or woolly indris, are nine species of strepsirrhine primates. Like all other lemurs, they live only on the island of Madagascar. With a body size of 30 to 50 cm and a weight of 600 to 1200 g, the woolly lemurs are the smallest indriids. Their fur is short and woolly. The body can be grey brown to reddish, with white on the back of the thighs, with a long orange tail. Their head is round with a short muzzle and ears hidden in the fur. The woolly lemurs can be found in both humid and dry forests, spending most of their time in the leafy copse. Like many leafeaters they need long naps to digest their food. Woolly lemurs live together in groups of two to five animals, which often consist of parents and several generations of their offspring. Like all indriids, the woolly lemurs are strictly vegetarian, eating predominantly leaves, but also buds and, rarely, flowers. Males and females live in pairs. Although likely, the presence of extrapair copulations (which exist in other pair-living nocturnal lemurs, e.g. the Masoala Fork-crowned Lemur (Phaner furcifer) and the Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur (Cheirogaleus medius)) has never been demonstrated in Avahi species. The gestation period is four to five months, with births usually coming in September. In the first few months, the young rides on the back of its mother. After approximately six months it is weaned, and can live independently after a year, although it will typically live for another year in proximity to its mother...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=47746