A very careful Brown mouse lemur
This little brown mouse lemur is eating banana pulp from the bark of a tree in Ranomafana, Madagascar. The position it is in highlights their very shy and careful nature, using its tail as an exit strategy to leap back high up in the trees at the slightest sense of danger.
The brown mouse lemur is a small primate, and like the other mouse lemurs can only be found on the island of Madagascar. They are known also as the rufous mouse lemur, eastern rufous mouse lemur, red mouse lemur, or russet mouse lemur. Its dorsal side is brown or reddish-brown, while ventrally it is a whitish-grey.
It was originally considered a subspecies of the gray mouse lemur until 1977, when it was reclassified as a separate species.
The mouse lemurs are among the shortest-lived.. more
