Habits: Lemurs are arboreal primates, but of all the lemurs the ring-tail spends the greatest amount of time on the ground. They prefer large horizontal limbs and like many other primates don't appear to be very agile in small branches. They live in social groups of up to twenty individuals comprised of adult males and females and young.

In the wild the young are usually born from September through November. The young cling to the mother's abdomen for the first couple of weeks then start clinging to her back. They become independent at about six months and are sexually mature at eighteen months.

Status: Endangered.