Photo of the Week

The ring tailed lemur appeared once before in Photo Of The Week: June 18, 2000. They look cute when they are on the ground and are holding their tails straight up into the the air like flags.

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.

This lemur was at the San Antonio Zoo in Texas.