These tiny animals were born after 4.5 months of pregnancy. While a few days old spending his day hanging on his mother’s belly until the older ones, roughly one-month cubs already ride on the back of the female animals. The newborn Ring-tailed lemur is born with blue eyes, but after a few weeks its eyes changing for bright yellow colour.
Unitl age of five months they are breast-fed, but at the age of two months they select from fruit, vegetables, leaves and shoots as well.
The Ring-tailed lemur is known from the animated film, which title is, Madagascar and can be easily recognized by its ring patterned tail, which is held high while walking.
It inhabits in the southern and south-western region of Madagascar's forests, and comparison with other lemurs it stays more on the ground. (In Latin, also known them and their close relatives as lemures as their shouts sound like the voice of the spirits of the dead, the Roman lemures according to the scientist.)
Their social structure is unique among mammals, since all adult females are dominant over the group’s matured males.
One of the most striking social behaviour of them is the common sun bathing in the early morning.
All female group members involved in the education of little ones, and even mothers exchange their cubs. Lemures usually give birth only one offspring, although neither twinning is rarity.
There are two Ring-tailed lemur families at our zoo: in the larger breeding group, one matured male lives with its females – there are four cubs in this family, until the smaller one became enriched by a twin and our guests can walk among this smaller group.
As the breeding season is defined and there are several fertile females still in the group, so it is likely to be even bigger in the near future.
Currently there are 25 inhabitants of the lemur group of Nyíregyháza.
