Red Ruffed Lemur (IMAGE)

Wildlife Conservation Society

Red Ruffed Lemur

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Madagascar's Makira forest is one of the world's great primary forests home to wildlife found nowhere else on earth including this red-ruffed lemur. Fifty-seven percent of all tropical forest species are dependent on primary forest habitat and the ecological processes they provide.

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Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society

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Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society.

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