Photo of the Week
by Freeman F. & Mary Daniels Brown
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Week of June 18, 2000
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This ring-tailed lemur was photographed at the Indianapolis Zoo. Lemurs are primates whose lineage dates back over 57 million years ago at which time they lived in what are now Europe and North America. Today lemurs live only on Madagascar and the Comoro Islands where they are relatively free of competition by more advanced mammals. The ring-tailed lemur, the species most often seen in zoos, is the only one whose tail is not solid-colored.