Ring Tailed Lemar

The Ring Tailed Lemar lives in the forests of Madagascar that is the only place you will find the Ring Tailed Lemar. The Ring Tailed Lemar has rings around the tail that is how it gets it's name its coat is tan it has a white face and the rings around the tail is black and white the Lemar has a black nose and hands what has padding to clime and use it to hang and grab it's food and pointy ears. But the Ring Tailed Lemar can not hang on there tails like other primates. The Lemar spends most of its time in the tree tops watching out for predators it also spends a lot of time on the forest floor. Madagascar people eat Ring Tailed Lemar's and other tip of Lemar's the risen why the Ring Tailed Lemar are endangered is because loss or habitat people in Madagascar use the trees for houses and farm places for there cattle. The way to tell the differences between a male Ring Tailed Lemar and a females the males are larger and the females are smaller but the females lead the group they are the ones how protect there group from other groups. The Ring Tail Lemar's eat fruit which is the biggest part of there diet but they also eat leaves, flowers, tree bark and tree sap. They have 6 to 30 members in a Ring Tailed Lemar but the average group is about 17 in a group. The Ring Tailed Lemar is a mammal they are herbivore there life span in the wild is up to 18 years. There size head and body 17,75 in (45cm)Tail 21,75 in (55 cm) the Ring Tail Lemar's weight is 5 to 7,5 Ibs (2.3 to 3.4 kg) people call there troop a group but it is not called that it is troop. The Ring Tailed Lemar is on the endangered list because of the pouching and lost of forest and the trees beaning cut down and because of the cattle. So help the Ring Tailed Lemar out and bring them out of the endangered species list so go to a library and read more about these animals they are great animals.