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Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur — printable fact sheet
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Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur
Varecia variegata
This lemur has a claim that no other primate does: it is probably the world's largest pollinator. The traveller's palm of Madagascar has flowers sealed inside tough bracts that most animals cannot open, and the black-and-white ruffed lemur pulls them apart with its hands, buries…
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- Unlike most primates, Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur mothers build nests for their young and may leave them in the nest while foraging, a rare behavior among lemurs.
- Its alarm chorus is one of the loudest sounds in the Madagascan forest, a raucous barking roar that a whole group joins and that carries well over a kilometre. Ruffed lemurs are almost entirely frugivorous, which makes them major seed dispersers for large-seeded rainforest trees that few other Madagascan animals can swallow. The eastern rainforest they depend on has been reduced to fragments, and their populations crashed by around 80 percent in recent decades.
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