fork-marked lemur
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Fork-marked lemur are considered very vocal animals, a have a complex range of calls.

Pale Fork-marked Lemur (Phaner pallescens), found in west of the island.

It used to be considered a subspecies of the Masoala fork-marked lemur (Phaner furcifer).

Fork-marked Lemur (Phaner furcifer)

Pariente's Fork-marked Lemur (Phaner parienti), found in the Sambirano region in the north-west.

Only the Masoala fork-marked lemur (Phaner furcifer) and Coquerel's giant mouse lemur regularly consume tree sap.

Amber Mountain Fork-marked Lemur (Phaner electromontis), found in the Amber Mountain National Park in the far north of the island.

Other lemurs of the Anjajavy Forest are the Milne-Edwards' sportive lemur (Lepilemur edwardsi) and the Pale fork-marked lemur.

The Amber Mountain fork-marked lemur (Phaner electromontis), or Montagne d'Ambre fork-crowned lemur, is a small primate, and like the other lemurs, can only be found on the island of Madagascar.

The pale fork-marked lemur (Phaner pallescens), or western fork-marked lemur, is known from western Madagascar; south of the Fiherenana River to the region of Soalala.

Pariente's fork-marked lemur (Phaner parienti), or the Sambirano fork-marked lemur is a species of lemur endemic to the Sambirano region of north-western Madagascar.

The Masoala fork-marked lemur (Phaner furcifer), also known as the eastern fork-marked lemur or Masoala fork-crowned lemur, is found in the coastal forests of northern and western Madagascar.

In December 2010, Russell Mittermeier of Conservation International and Ed Louis from the Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo announced the possibility of a new species of fork-marked lemur in the protected area of Daraina in northeast Madagascar.

There are a number of species of nocturnal lemurs present: Red-tailed sportive lemur, Pygmy mouse lemur, Gray mouse lemur, Pale Fork-marked Lemur, Coquerel's Giant Mouse Lemur and the Fat-tailed dwarf lemur.

In fork-marked lemurs (Phaner) the toothcomb is more compressed, with significantly reduced interdental spaces.

The third upper premolar (P3) is also reduced, resembling the condition in the fork-marked lemurs (Phaner).

Fork-marked lemurs or fork-crowned lemurs are four lemur species of the genus Phaner.

Fork-marked Lemur (Phaner furcifer)

Masoala Fork-marked Lemur (Phaner furcifer), found on the Masoala peninsula in the north-east of the island.

In Tunis, the restaurant called Le Typic (56 Avenue Habib Phaner; 742039) - in the suburb of Sidi Bou Said, in the house where Andre Gide once lived - specializes in Tunisian dishes and a couscous that mixes a little quince with the meat or fish.