the Mohrenmaki is widespread in the north of Madagascar and on the Comoros. Actually only the male carries this name rightly, because it is actually ebony while the females are colored bay and therefore long time was regarded as own type. In the birth, all young are dark at first, only after half a year, the female animals assume the reddish-brown color.
Shape The Mohrenmaki is approximately cat-big. it is 35-40 cm long and has one more than body-reaches, bushy tail. The animals weigh between 2 and 3 kg. The fur is dense and soft, only the fox-good muzzle carries short hair. The upper cuspids and the middle low pre-cheek-teeth are long taken off and carnivore-good. The upper edge-teeth are only small, while that forms a diagonally forward standing tooth-comb together, that is used for the fur-care, low with the cuspids.
Sinnesleistungen The eyes are big and the ears relatively small, however frequent with long edge-fringes equips. Some subtypes have a more or less long sideburns. The Mohrenmaki can see well and can hear. As Tagtier, it is also in the position of distinguishing colors. A particularly trained place in the retina of the eye, the Fovea centralis, makes an especially good Scharfsehen possible.
Also the Riechvermögen is well developed. It plays a special role at the partner-finding or when recognizing from Artgenossen. With help of olfactory-brands, also the territories are delimited.
Locomotion The Mohrenmaki runs preferentially quadruped on the branch or branch-surfaces. it climbs mainly in the trees, jumps also on the ground with danger, however, and escapes there.
its legs are somewhat longer than the arms. Particularly the hands are like with the Sifaka properly originally although the locomotion-manner is quite different. The soles are bare, surface and toes upholstered. The thumb and the big toe are opponierbar, d. h., they can the other fingers as well as. Toes are compared and execute gripping-movements.
Food The Mohrenmaki is in the morning and in the late-night-afternoon until into the evening in on food-search. it lives from fruits, buds and leaves. In captivity, it can be fed complementary with meat. Whether it eats eggs, young birds or insects also in the free nature like other semi-monkeys, is not sure.
The Mohrenmaki licks the morning dew or drinks the caught rain from the tree-caves or leaf-shoulders. it puts its hand in the water-accumulation like most semi-monkeys and then licks off the water.
Way of life The Mohrenmaki occurs in manifold forest-types on the trees or on the ground. it lives in differently large and differently organized groups.
It always is several males and females as well as young, who are led by a found out female. The average group-size is with 10 animals. Sometimes, groups close, that go separately on food-search, to a sleep-community, during the day, like like with some baboons, together. The sleep-groups can consist of over 20 animals. The group-structure is not as solid as with many other primates. It frequently is constructed subgroups, that scatter and mix again. Individual individuals can immigrate also in stoves of foreign Lemuren (Katta) and can live with these in a community.
The Mohrenmaki lives in differently big territories, that up to 40 ah big is. The territories overlap at the edges and are defended against other groups. The defense-action usually restricts itself to a coming and Herdrohen or a mutual trying to shout above. The precinct is marked by males and females with urine or with the secretions of skin-glands at forearm and anuses. Very frequently, the fur (social fur-care) looks after engl the Mohrenmakis mutually. grooming. they lick yourself and comb with the tongue or with the tooth-comb formed from the low edge-teeth tail and fur. Also the finery-claw of the 2. Toe is used for the body-care. The social fur-care plays an important role in living together of the Lemuren. Only by the close mutual contact, the cohesion of the group is guaranteed.
Reproduction Mohrenmakis get 1-2 kids between August and Octobers after a Tragzeit of 4-4,5 months. they always are gloomily colored and change the color only in the run of the development. The young Mohrenmakis are more helpless than the small Kattas. they are carried by the mother over the stomach crosswise and 5 months are suckled. They made up on that occasion the development-lead of the Kattas soon.
Endangering The Mohrenmaki belongs to the endangered types of animal and is protected by the Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen.
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