Perodicticus Potto lemur

Rarely do people see Perodicticus potto lemurs because in the daytime they sleep in luxuriant branches, curled up, their heads between their legs.

The body of the lemur is about 38cm long, the tail is about 6cm long, and weighs about 1.5kg. They just wake up at night. In the dark night of the jungle, lemurs move slowly. With great care, they moved in a way that slowly moved one step at a time, almost like the circus actor walking on the wire.

The strange thing is that this animal never leaves the trunk, never puts its foot on the ground. They are usually on trees with a height of 5-30m. Normally, they cling tightly to the tree branches that are difficult to remove.

The feet and hands of lemurs can be grasped like a human hand, they are perfectly adapted to wearing tree branches. Because there are blood storage areas in the hands and feet, lemurs can hold onto the branches for a long time without getting tired. The second finger on the table replaced with claws, used for brushing. All other fingers are as flat as human fingers.

The back of the neck of the lemur has four horns, which are the bones from the spine that protrude, covering it with hairless tumors.

The main food of lemurs is fruit and many other plant foods. However, they also eat insects and snails; In some places, lemurs also caught eating both caterpillars and itchy hairs, foul-smelling beetles, and poisonous multi-legged animals. Lemurs think of a clever way to eat: they often rub the itch deeply to bring out a lot of itchy hair before putting it in their mouths. They also eat poison ants. In addition, lemurs can kill and eat either young birds or bats.

In the dark, lemurs still find food - not their eyes but they find their prey on the taste, even if moving slowly, but when they get close to their prey, they can still snatch up their prey with their hands. and mouth.

Lemurs are quite fierce, defend themselves by biting very hard, the main enemies of lemurs are big owl birds.

Lemurs often live alone, except for the short period of breeding season, scientists also know very little about the reproduction of this strange creature. However, there is also some information about their reproduction: The sound of a male calling a child sounds like a roar of a child; During intercourse, males and females stay together all night and during the day they stay awake together, but they never sleep together.

Lemur skeleton

Each year, children only give birth to 1 child, they are pregnant from 6 to 6.5 months. The calf attaches to the belly under the mother until it is 3 weeks old. When the baby is a little older, while the mother lemur is feeding at night, the mother lemurs let their babies hang in a tree in a safe place, and then bring them back to the nest when they have finished eating, both Both mother and daughter sleep together all day. Occasionally, the near-weaning offspring will climb on the back of their mother and go to feed

The young weaned at 4-5 months of age (from January to March) is the time to have lots of fruit in the forest. Young males leave the mother's area when they are 6 months old. Young females are independent at 8 months of age, but are still in the mother's area for a long time.

In the forest, lemurs live at a density of about 8-10 per km ² . Each adult occupies an area that is large enough (about 6-9 ha), enough for them and their children to feed. Meanwhile, every adult male usually possesses a 9-40 hectare area, which can cover an area of ​​one or more females. However, the area of ​​adult males never encroach upon. areas of other males. Lemurs communicate with each other by cries and by leaving streaks of urine on the branches.

This slow animal is also useful, helping to disperse seeds in the fruit they eat. Lemurs are often hunted by humans for meat.

Lemurs live about 22 years old. They live in rainforests along the coast of West Africa and Central Africa.