His need to “move it, move it” pretty much put these lemurs on the popularity map. This easy-to-recognize primate has a distinctive black and white ringed tail. And true to the movie’s ...

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 ...

Ring-tailed lemurs have a black and white striped tail which is longer than their whole body! They use their tails to communicate and for balance. Ring-tailed lemurs eat fruits, flowers ...

Self-anointment is not exclusive to red-fronted lemurs, though few species approach it with such flair. Male ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta), for instance, have turned the practice into a form of ...

Ring-tailed lemurs look different! They retain a number of primitive mammalian traits. For example: Reflective tapetum lucidum, which is a layer of cells in the wall of the eye that reflects light ...