MONGOOSE LEMUR (Eulemur mongoz)

Image by kind permission of The Duke Primate Centre Photographer Jim Kerley		This medium size lemur is easily mistaken for the Common Brown lemur, although it's fur is more grey in colour. Males have grey/brown fur with a pale grey underneath. Their faces are grey, with a dark nose at the end of a pale grey muzzle and they have distinctive red/brown fur on their cheeks, chin, forehead and back of the neck. Females differ from the males in colour with a paler, grey upper with a creamy colour around the face instead of red/brown. Common to both sexes is a dark tip to their long tails and orange/red eyes. The Mongoose lemur is generally found in the north-west of Madagascar, where they live in small groups which are made up with a pair of monogamous adults and a few dependant offspring. Females give birth to their young around October. Their diet consists mainly of fruits, although they also eat flowers, nectar, occasionally beetles and insect grubs and during the dry season - leaves.
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS LENGTH Head and body 32.5cm   Tail 46.5cm •  WEIGHT 1.25kg

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