What's the use of lemur's tail?

Lemurs communicate with other lemurs through their noses and tails. The lemur's tail can also keep warm and keep balance. Lemurs use their tails as warehouses. In the rainy season when food is abundant, lemurs store a lot of nutrients in their tails. In the dry season when food sources are scarce, lemurs live by consuming nutrients stored in their tails.

Lemurs are a special primate, and lemurs are also mammals. Lemurs are mainly distributed in Madagascar, but also found in Comoros. Compared with other species, ring-tailed lemurs spend most of their time on the ground.

Lemurs are the most primitive monkeys. Although it has a body shape and a structure of hands and feet like a monkey, its face is like a fox and a dog. They have a beautiful long tail with a circle of black and white links on it.

Extended data

Most animals have tails behind their backs. These tails are long or short and have different shapes. And the use is different.

The main functions of animal tails are:

1, balance effect

The tails of monkeys and squirrels keep it balanced when jumping branches and never slip. When a horse gallops, its tail acts as a good balance. Birds use their tails as flying machines. There are long and wide feathers on the tail of a bird, which can rotate flexibly like a fan when unfolded, making it easy to master the flight direction. In flight, the bird's tail acts as a rudder.

2. Safety function

Pangolin's tail is wrapped around the tree like a seat belt. The crocodile's tail is very strong, as strong as an iron bar, and can be used as a weapon for defense and attack. Ordinary wild animals such as lions and leopards can't stand its blow. When the beaver in the water is in danger, it will slap the water with its tail and make a "crackling" sound to warn its companions.

3. Support functions

When a woodpecker stands on a vertical trunk to peck at pests, its tail is supported in a crack in the bark, so that it can stand firm and not fall. It can be said that its tail is its "third leg". The kangaroo's tail is thick and long. When resting, it lies on the ground and becomes its stool.

4, heat preservation effect

Squirrels, foxes and other animals with thick tails will shrink their bodies into a ball when it is cold, and then wrap their big tails around them, just like wrapping them in a big fur scarf, so that no matter how cold the weather is, they will not be frozen.

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