Lemurs’ Wild Nightlife | On Assignment

a daytime animal gets caught on camera
out and about after dark I’m Lucy McNeil
and this is National Geographic on
assignment your link to thousands of nat
geo explorers around the globe today
we’re off to southwestern madagascar
when national Geographics Marnie Lafleur
studies the social structure of
ring-tailed lemurs she and her team hid
motion-activated cameras to capture
photos of lemurs nighttime predators the
images revealed a huge surprise to the
scientists lemurs once thought to be
active primarily during the day also
have a robust nightlife since previous
studies of the animals were daytime
these photos open a new window into our
knowledge of ring-tailed lemurs that’s
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