Ring-tailed lemur

Lemur catta, the ring-tailed lemur (Lemuridae), is the only living species of its genus. Head-body length is 39–46 cm, the black-and-white banded tail 56–63 cm, total length 95–110 cm, and mean weight 2.2 kg. It is endemic to southern Madagascar, inhabiting gallery forest, dry deciduous forest and spiny scrub from sea level to about 2,600 m. It is omnivorous, feeding mainly on fruit, leaves and flowers, and is the most terrestrial of lemurs. It lives in female-dominated groups of 6–25. IUCN assessed it as Endangered in 2014, wild numbers having fallen about 95% since the 1990s.