Mammals

active adult Africa American animals arboreal areas bear BEHAVIOR birth body length breeding brown calls cats central color COMMON NAMES CONSERVATION STATUS Crocuta dark DISTRIBUTION dogs ECOLOGY AND DIET Endangered FEEDING ECOLOGY females foraging forest French fruit genera Genus German gibbon gray groups HABITAT Head and body hunting individuals infants insects Island known leaves lemurs lion listed live lower Madagascar mainly males mammals marking mating monkeys months nocturnal northern occur period Photo PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS populations Press prey primates rainforest range relatively Reproduced by permission REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY seal season sexual short SIGNIFICANCE TO HUMANS single social southern Spanish species SUBFAMILY subspecies tail length tamarins tarsier TAXONOMY territory threatened trees tropical typically University usually varies weight wild World World monkeys young