The ring tailed lemur has an opposable thumb on all four feet, which aids the lemur in its tree dwelling life. Ring Tailed Lemur adults weigh seven to twelve pounds and are fifteen to eighteen inches from head to the base of the tail. The long eighteen-inch tail is not prehensile and is used for balance when jumping from branch to branch. Ring Tailed Lemurs have been known to jump ten feet vertically. The diet of the lemur is varied with fruits, vegetables, seeds, leaves, and occasionally insects.
Lemurs are very social and travel in troops of three to thirty.
Studies of Ring Tailed Lemurs have reveled over fifteen different vocal sounds, in addition to body language, used for communication. Parker Space announces that the two female lemurs had young in mid April. The babies are the size of a spool of thread with long arms, legs and a tail. They are gray and black. Ralph Space, founder of Space Farms in 1927, established the Doll Museum at the Space Farms Museum Complex in 1979.