Wild Kratts
Ring-Tailed Lemurs
Clip: Season 3 Episode 20 | 1m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
In the morning, ring-tailed lemurs sun and groom themselves.
In the morning, ring-tailed lemurs sun and groom themselves.
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Wild Kratts
Ring-Tailed Lemurs
Clip: Season 3 Episode 20 | 1m 39sVideo has Closed Captions
In the morning, ring-tailed lemurs sun and groom themselves.
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CHRIS: On Madagascar, the land of the lemurs.
Down in the dry forest of the central southern highlands.
It'’’s us, the Kratt brothers.
I'’’m Chris.
I'’’m Martin.
And those are ring-tailed lemurs.
This is the first thing the ring-tailed lemurs do every morning: sun themselves and warm up their bodies and then reconnect with the troop by sitting around and grooming each other.
They run those specialized lower teeth, called a tooth comb, through each other'’’s fur.
And that keeps their coats nice and healthy.
MARTIN: Oh, babies!
This troop has babies!
Oh, and they are young ones.
Looks like they'’’re only two weeks old.
Check out how the babies ride the mom'’’s back.
They just cling on to Mom, under her belly at first.
And then when they get older, they start riding on top.
Woo!
That works!
Once they'’’ve warmed up, the troop starts moving off to look for breakfast in the forest.
Ring-tailed lemurs have the largest groups of any lemur species.
There could be up to 30 in a single group.
So, communication is vital to ring-tailed lemurs.
In fact, they talk to each other using both sound and smell.
And one way ring-tailed lemurs talk with smell is with an all out-- No-holds barred-- Head-to-head-- Stink fight!
Stink fight!
Imagine if we had ring-tailed lemur powers!
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