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Madagascar Lemurs form one of the most interesting and principal animal species that are found in the country. With a wide variety of lemurs inhabiting the island from historic times, Madagascar is famous all over the world for its lemurs. Lemurs are primates the appearance of which is a mixture of cats, dogs and squirrels. Unique to Madagascar, the Madagascar Lemurs portray a wide range of characteristic features, for example, singing like whales, prancing like a ballet dancer and so on.
Cut off from the changes in world evolutions the Lemurs of Madagascar are a specialty of the country's ecosystem. The Lemurs resemble the monkeys with respect to particular behavioral traits. Like the monkeys the Madagascar Lemurs mostly live in social groups, eat fruits and other forms of vegetation and are extremely active throughout the day. The nocturnal lemurs are comparatively smaller than the diurnal lemurs. The lemurs are extremely vocal. Some of them, like the brown lemurs or the sifaka, can grunt, the mouse lemurs chirp, while the chirp (mouse lemurs), wail (indri) etc.
Presently, there are a number of species, sub species and families of Madagascar lemurs. Lemurs in Madagascar include different types of Dwarf Lemurs, Mouse Lemurs, Fork-crowned Lemurs, Aye-Aye, Avahi, Indri, Sifaka, Brown Lemur and others. The Lemur species of Madagascar varies in their size that ranges from the pygmy mouse lemur of 25 gram to the indri. All the various species of Lemurs of Madagascar are native to the country making Madagascar the second country in the world after Brazil with the largest number of primates.
Today the Madagascar Lemurs are one of the greatly endangered species. This is mainly because of the fact that they are losing their habitats due to various human activities. To protect these fascinating animals of Madagascar, the lemurs are kept in protected area and parks.
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