Bamboo Lemur Eating Bamboo (IMAGE)

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Bamboo Lemur Eating Bamboo

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In this photograph, the greater bamboo lemur eats the tough culm (trunk) of bamboo, which it only does so during the dry season, but it prefers bamboo shoots which are more nutritious.

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Jukka Jernvall

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