Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata)

About Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Mammals
• Order: Primates
• Family: Lemuridae

Ruffed lemurs are tree dwellers and are the most arboreal of the true lemurs (AZA, 1994). They inhabit the wet evergreen forest on the eastern coast of Madagascar (Black and White Ruffed Lemur, 1996).

Habitat Regions: tropical ; terrestrial

Terrestrial Biomes: rainforest

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