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solitary bachelors or have ranges overlapping more than one female. The average size of a female territory is 4 hectares (9.9 acres) with a male territory averaging 3.8 hectares (9.4 acres). The lemurs sometimes gather at the places where the territories overlap; there is no aggression on these occasions, but much vocalisation for a period of ten or twenty minutes. The animal moves on all fours, running rapidly along branches, climbing and jumping, mostly at a few metres above the ground, but descending to the forest floor on occasion.
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The male and female are in frequent vocal communication throughout the night, but this species in unusual among nocturnal lemurs in not communicating through olfactory signals, and the urine and faeces are allowed to drop to the forest floor. A large cutaneous gland on the throat of the male is used
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The
Masoala fork-marked lemur is so-called because the black stripe along its spine divides on the crown, the two forks continuing on either side of the head to the eye and along either side of the muzzle. The rest of the pelage is some shade of reddish or brownish grey. The head-and-body length is
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tree in turn, feeding on the gum and moving on to the next tree. It has a complex itinerary which it regularly follows, and later in the night it visits other less-favoured gum-sources and returns to the previously visited trees and gleans any gum it has missed. The same
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species, the toothcomb has evolved to be more robust and is used to scrape the gum that exudes from holes on a tree made by insects. This structure consists of a row of lower incisors that are long and forward pointing. The favoured food sources are trees in the genus
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November or December. This remains in the nesting hole of the parents at first, but as it gets older it is carried by the mother, clinging to her underside, and when it gets larger, to her back.
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Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference
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Malagasy primates: Ecology, Physiology, and Behavior
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has assessed its conservation status as being endangered.
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to northeastern Madagascar. Its range extends from the
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907:Southern fat-tailed dwarf lemur (
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961:Montagne d'Ambre dwarf lemur (
934:Lesser iron-gray dwarf lemur (
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1137:Margot Marsh's mouse lemur (
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579:"Checklist of CITES Species"
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692:Briercheck, Ken (1999).
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1101:Goodman's mouse lemur (
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1119:Claire's mouse lemur (
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943:Sibree's dwarf lemur (
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698:: fork-marked lemur"
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1191:Brown mouse lemur (
1173:Pygmy mouse lemur (
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756:Nowak, R. (1999).
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1211:M. simmonsi
1175:M. myoxinus
1148:M. marohita
1049:M. danfossi
1013:M. arnholdi
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560:19 November
494:P. furcifer
342:natural gum
303:Description
281:P. furcifer
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1085:M. jollyae
1022:M. berthae
994:Microcebus
981:C. thomasi
972:C. grovesi
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1094:M. jonahi
1040:M. boraha
900:C. medius
844:Kingdom:
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372:Adansonia
354:toothcomb
346:deciduous
326:Toamasina
193:Species:
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115:Eukaryota
1594:Species+
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1508:10593686
1414:Q1150927
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1067:M. gerpi
918:C. major
864:Primates
858:Mammalia
852:Chordata
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