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Lemurs (3rd in series): Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur

A large, loud, and spectacularly agile rainforest-dwelling lemur, it is usually considered a single species, Varecia variegata.

Some argue that its three subspecies are so distinct that they should be classified as three species.

Alas, beyond argument is its/their status: critically endangered.

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Lemurs (1st in series): Ring-tailed

Looks rather like a Paris-styled raccoon.

(Primatologist Alison Jolly’s 1967 description of Madagascar’s emblematic mammal)

Lemur catta – the ring-tailed lemur – is the most “adaptable” of circa 107 lemur species.

However, like other lemurs, its post-1967 story is one of potentially catastrophic decline, mostly via destruction of suitable habitat.

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