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Ring-tailed Lemur

This Ring-tailed Lemur Ethogram is a combination of our general Zoo-Well ethogram and adaptations from Kelly et al., 2025.

Ring-tailed Lemur

Alone locomotion: Animal walking, climbing, or scrambling more than 1 body length away from another animal


Alone resting: Stationary on land or in tree/structure; eyes half or fully closed; minimal head orientation movements


Social resting: Stationary on land or in a tree/structure; eyes half or fully closed; minimal head orientation movements and within 1 body length of another animal


Social walking: Walking on land or structure in the same direction and within 1 body length of another animal


Anticipatory behaviour: Animal directs eyes and sometimes orients its body toward caretakers, gates, or people outside the enclosure. Does not include anticipatory pacing


Vocalisation: Animal makes any vocalisation (e.g., growling, grunting, calling)


Alone non-enrichment play: Play behaviours with the animal’s own body or part of the environment (not enrichment items)


Enrichment engagement: Exploratory or play behaviour directed toward enrichment items or activities


Social non-enrichment play: Gentle play with another animal, lower intensity than agonistic behaviour


Food intake: Animal ingests food as part of feeding or enrichment


Social grooming: Animal licks or gently bites fur of another animal


Sniffing: Animal sniffs another animal


Sexual behaviour: Genital contact, genital sniffing, mounting, or copulation


Agonistic behaviour: High-speed aggressive interactions including biting, chasing, scent fighting


Alone grooming: Animal grooms its own body


Wakeful inactivity: Animal stationary with eyes open but not resting


Alone sniffing: Animal sniffs air or environment (excluding enrichment)


Environmental rubbing: Animal rubs body against environmental features


Pacing without anticipation: Repetitive locomotion without anticipatory cues


Pacing with anticipation: Repetitive locomotion with anticipatory cues


Oral ARB: Repetitive oral behaviours without apparent function


Locomotory ARB: Repetitive movement-based behaviours without function


Urinate: Animal observed urinating


Defaecate: Animal observed defaecating


Other behaviour: Any behaviour not listed


Out of sight: Animal not visible

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