How Do Black & White Ruffled Lemurs communicate?

Black & White Ruffed Lemurs

Ruffed Lemurs!! • Scientific Name: Varecia Variegata

Varigata• Their habitat is rainforests.• Lemurs in live in a social groups

made up many males and females; Females are in charge of the group

• Black-and-ruffed lemurs are one of the only two types of lemurs to build nests for their young.

• Mothers will typically have two babies at once, although they can have up to six.

• The babies stay in the nest and if mother need to move, she carries them in her mouth.

• They can live up to 20 years

Black & White Ruffled Lemurs are mostly found in Eastern Madagascar

Communication• Animal communication is any behavior on the

part of one animal that has an effect on the current behavior of another animal.

• Animal communication takes a number of different forms– Visual: distinctive body movements.– Tactile: involve body touching such as grooming.– Olfactory: chemical messages conveyed by

smells and tastes.– Vocalization: form of sounds producing by

speaking such as barking.

How Do Ruffed Lemurs

COMMUNICATE???

Black-and-White ruffed lemurs usually use olfactory

and Auditory communication.

Reference to Ethogram

Olfactory Communication– Is used extensively by

ruffed lemurs.– They use scent marking to

protect each other. – Females use scent mark

with their anogential scent glands by squatting to rub their anogential region along horizontal surfaces, such as tree limbs.

– Males favor using the scent glands on their neck and chest.

Auditory Communication– Ruffed lemurs also use highly

vocal, with extensive vocal collection .

– They have many vocalizations; some keep the group together, while others vocalization keep other groups away.

– Such as pulsed squawk, adults direct them at the predator after moving to a safe position.

– Their calls can be heard up to 1 kilometer.

– They utilize alarm calls that differentiate between different predators.

Scent Glance!

Vocalization!

Measure by five minutes

ConclusionThe Ethogram showed that Black & White lemurs interact with each others physically; grooming and cuddling. They also make distinctive vocalization movement such as moaning and moving of there tails. They are more likely to use vocal communication than moving of their bodies.

Reference to Ethogram and pie graph!!!

Bibliography• http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/

pages/6418/Animal-Communication.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruffed_lemur

• http://www.zooatlanta.org/home/animals/mammals/bw_ruffled_lemur