2. These broad-nosed lemurs have grey all over their fur
and have a distinctive blunt snout. They also have
powerful legs so they can jump really high.

3. Greater bamboo lemurs live in most Jungles and forests
in a island known as Madagascar. Madagascar is next to
a country called Mozambique.

4. Of course Greater Bamboo Lemurs eat bamboo! They
also eat pith, shoots, leaves and buds.

5. A greater bamboo lemur gives birth to one baby in a
lifetime. Baby lemurs are about the size of a jam jar
when they are born.

6. Because humans are cutting down the forests of
bamboo that the Greater bamboo lemurs live in. They
need bamboo to survive. There is also their predators
trying to kill them. That is why there are very few
greater bamboo lemurs left.

7. Greater bamboo lemurs threats are humans, but it’s non-
human threat is a fusa. A fusa is a cat-like carnivore.

8. A Greater bamboo lemurs habitat is a forest of bamboo
plants. Greater bamboo lemurs need bamboo trees to
live in and eat. This habitat also has the right
temperature for them to survive. That is why they live in
this kind of habitat.

9. Greater bamboo lemurs spend most of their time in
their home, a bamboo tree. But sometimes greater
bamboo lemurs came down to the forest floor to travel.

11. Distinctive = pretty obvious that or or she has got it.
E.g. My friend had a distinctive scar on her arm.
Pith = A soft part inside the bamboo.
Carnivore = A meat eating animal. E.g. A shark is a
carnivore.
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