Ring Tailed Lemurs

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The weight for adult males are six to seven pounds.Ring-tailed lemur backs are gray and brown, arms and legs are gray, and their heads and neck are dark gray. They have white bellies. Their faces are white with dark eyes and a black nose. Their tails have 13 alternating black and white stripes. This tail can measure up to two feet in length.
Unlike most other lemurs, ring-tails spend 40 percent of their time on the ground. They move on all fours along the forest floor.lemurs can run as fast as 20 MPH.

No More Lemurs?
Ring-tailed lemurs are close to extinction because of a few bigger predator:dogs, humans,snakes,hawks and fossa they are also being hunted for food people are destroying their habitat for charcoal and sometimes cats

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