Ring-tailed Lemurs- Sedona and Verde

by Donna Kennedy

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Ring-tailed Lemurs- Sedona and Verde

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Donna Kennedy

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Original Fine Art Photography and Digital Artwork by Donna Kennedy...
Photographed at Out of Africa Wildlife Park in Camp Verde, Arizona

The matriarch of the troop, Sedona has mothered all the lemurs in Lemurland with her mate, Verde. Her favorite foods are blueberries, grapes, and bananas. Born in 2000, Sedona made Out of Africa Wildlife Park her home in November 2001. One year later, Verde arrived at the park and they have been mates ever since. Sedona gives birth every spring, and their offspring have stayed with the family. Her husband, Verde, is submissive to her, as is customary in lemur society. Sedona keeps a watchful eye on the pups. Lemurs enjoy watching us as much as we love to watch them, making them one of the most intriguing and entertaining mammals to observe at the park...
Lemurs are primates found only on the African island of Madagascar and some tiny neighboring islands. Because of its geographic isolation, Madagascar is home to many amazing animals found nowhere else on Earth. Lemurs may have floated there eons ago on "rafts" of vegetation and evolved in isolation over countless centuries.
Ring-tailed lemurs are unmistakable because of their long, vividly striped, black-and-white tail. They are familiar residents of many zoos.
Lemurs use their hands and feet to move nimbly through the trees, but cannot grip with their tails as some of their primate cousins do. Ring-tailed lemurs also spend a lot of time on the ground, which is unusual among lemur species. They forage for fruit, which makes up the greater part of their diet, but also eat leaves, flowers, tree bark, and sap.
Ring-tailed lemurs live in groups known as troops. These groups may include 6 to 30 animals, but average about 17. Both sexes live in troops, but a dominant female presides over all.
Lemurs are endangered, largely because the sparse, dry forests they love are quickly vanishing..

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