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Primates - Coquerel's Sifaka
Topic Started: Nov 24 2014, 12:26 AM (2,085 Views)
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Coquerel's Sifaka ~ Propithecus coquereli

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General Information

Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Indriidae
Genus: Propithecus
Species: P. coquereli

Location and Habitat
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Coquerel's Sifakas prefer to live in Madagascar's dry tropical forests.
Conservation Status
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Sizes
Weight4 kg
Length (average)93 to 110 cm
Height (average)N/A


In Zoos

Type of Exhibit:
In captivity the coquerel's sifaka should be kept in a medium sized aviary or a medium sized island. Either way the exhibit must have a lot of room to both climb and play. Open exhibits not on an island like this one not for sifakasshould have an inward facing fenceso climbing sifakas cannot get out of their exhibit. They should have access to an indoor area, especially if the climate gets too cold for them.

Temperament:
Sifakas are usually friendly to each other and are respectful of each other's territory.

Diet:
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Coquerel's sifaka has an herbivorous diet that varies by season. In the wet season, it eats immature leaves, flowers, fruit, bark, and dead wood. In the dry season, it eats mature leaves and buds.[7] It may browse nearly 100 different plant species, but the majority of its feeding time will be concentrated on about 10% of these.[9] Since it has a very fibrous diet, Coquerel's sifaka has an enlarged cecum and extremely long colon which helps facilitate digestion.[10] These lemurs spend between thirty to forty percent of its day foraging, especially in the morning, midday, and evening. Females often take leadership roles during foraging, and exert their dominance by eating the preferred food or denying the males food until they are satisfied. These lemurs are beneficial to the environment because they aid seed dispersion and serve to populate the plant life. Captive Coquerel’s sifkas eat shining leaf sumac and mimosa.


Social Needs:
Coquerel's Sifakas are very social animals. They live in large "troops."

Reproduction:
Also from Wikipedia.com
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Female Coquerel's sifakas choose who they mate with whether it be intragroup males or males from outside groups.[13] They have synchronized estrous and this occurs during January and February.[10] Infants are born in June and July after a gestation period of about 162 days. Normally, one infant is born during Madagascar’s dry season (June–July). Newborn lemurs have an average weight of 100 grams, though it can vary between 85 and 115 grams An infant will cling to its mother's chest until about a month or so after birth, then transfer to her back. Infants are weaned and become fully independent by about six months of age. Adult size is reached anywhere from one to five years.


Extra Information:
  • Occasionally Hybridization occurs with other species of sifakas.
  • The lemur the played Zoboomafoo was a Coquerel's Sifaka
  • A healthy sifaka can live up to 20 years.
  • The name sifaka comes from the sound that they make
  • Terrestrial behaviour is similar to the dancing of the Verreaux's Sifaka


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Edited by Ignacio, Nov 24 2014, 06:05 PM.
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You are suposed to link your sources in the spoiler not in the FS :P

Also there is a picture in the middle of the exhibit text but i'll fix that :P
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