What is a Lemurs Diet?
The diet of a lemur consists mostly of all vegetarian food. Lemurs diet depends up on their breed. The small species mainly eat fruits and insects, while the larger species are herbivorous eating only fruit and plant materials. For example the ring tailed lemur consumes insects and even small vertebrates when it can’t find its preferred fruits. While its larger cousin the coquerel giant mouse lemur only eats fruits but when it can’t find them it eats insect secretion during the winter season. Small species of lemurs cannot sustain on plant material entirely, so they eat insects and small animals sometimes. Leaves and fruits play a big part in the diet of lemurs. The ring tailed lemur also known as the bamboo lemurs and the black and white ruffed lemur are also known to consume medicinal plants and herbs, which is avoided by most of the other species. The golden bamboo lemur has also been seen eating giant bamboo which contain high levels of cyanide. Some lemurs have also been observed
