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	Animal Info - Diademed Sifaka
		The diademed sifaka is diurnal and mostly arboreal.
		The diademed sifaka occurs in multi-male, multi-female groups of between 3 and 9 individuals, who occupy large, exclusive territories that are depicted by scent-markings at the boundaries.
		perrieri) is the smallest subspecies and the diademed sifaka
	www.animalinfo.org /species/primate/propdiad.htm (2215 words)

	Verreaux's sifaka - Propithecus verreauxi: More Information - ARKive
		Verreaux's sifaka is endemic to Madagascar and the 4 subspecies occur in apparently isolated and distinct ranges in the south and west of the island (2).
		Coquerel's sifaka has the northernmost distribution along the northwest coast; next is the crowned sifaka, the most endangered of the 4 subspecies and inhabiting the smallest range (8).
		Decken's sifaka occurs in a band in the west of the country and it is possible that in its northern limit this species is sympatric with the crowned sifaka (6).
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Propithecus_verreauxi/more_info.html (956 words)

	Sifaka -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sifakas are a ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species) genus (Propithecus) from the (Any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet) primate family (Click link for more info and facts about Indridae) Indridae.
		Sifakas are (Click link for more info and facts about diurnal) diurnal and (Click link for more info and facts about arboreal) arboreal.
		Sifakas are (Any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants) herbivores, eating leaves, flowers and fruits.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/sifaka.htm (382 words)

	Animal Info - Golden-crowned Sifaka
		The golden-crowned sifaka is a medium-large lemur characterized by short, mostly white fur, prominent furry ears and a golden-orange crown.
		The golden-crowned sifaka is confined to a small area between the Manambato and Loky Rivers in northeast Madagascar.
		The golden-crowned sifaka is diurnal and mostly arboreal, although it is sometimes active before dawn and after dark during the rainy season.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/primate/proptatt.htm (1103 words)

	SIFAKA - Online Information article about SIFAKA
		SIFAKA, apparently the name of certain large Malagasy lemurs nearly allied to the See also:
		Sifakas are very variable in colouring, but always show a large amount of See also:
		clump of trees to another, they do not run on all fours, but stand erect, The Crowned Sifaka (Propithecus diadema coronatus).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SIFAKA.html (380 words)

	Primate of the Week - Verreaux's Sifaka
		The fur of Verreaux's sifaka is predominantly white, with the top of the head fl or chocolate brown.
		Verreaux's sifaka is found in the remaining forests of southern and southwestern Madagascar, from the Tsiribihina River east to the area a little to the west of Fort-Dauphin (=Tolagnaro), with the eastern limit apparently being the dry portion (Parcels 2 and 3) of the Andohahela Nature Reserve.
		In the Isalo area, this animal is known as sifaka-bilany or "sifaka of the cooking pot", either because of its popularity as a food item or because of the sooty fl appearance of individuals from its part of its range.
	homepage.mac.com /wildlifeweb/primate/PrimateWeek/VSifaka (938 words)

	The Realms of Lemuria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sifaka are a diurnal species and they have a strange society for a primate, living in small groups with a standing hierachal order.
		The young are born singly in the middle of the dry season, the Sifaka living in the dry areas, and are carried on their mother's bellies for three months, they then switch to riding on her back and eventually leaping along beside.
		Sifaka are sociable creatures and they using mutual grooming to maintain bonds within the Troop.
	www.geocities.com /Sharna_Kestral/Classification/sifaka.html (268 words)

	Avotra the sifaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After we took all his data, the little sifaka had some time to shake off the effects of the sedative.
		Sifaka are made for clinging and leaping, and are incapable of quadrapedal walking.
		When he made it into the dining room, the sifaka was bouncing off the walls, onto the table, breaking dishes.
	sun.menloschool.org /~djensen/madagascar/avotra/avotra.html (419 words)

	Dancing lemur attracts tourists to island of Madagascar
		While sifakas are generally found in trees where they are capable jumpers and feed on fruit, flowers, wood, bark and leaves, they are best known for their "dancing." Since trees in their habitat are often dispersed, sifakas cross open ground by sashaying on their hind legs with arms aloft.
		Sifakas also have the remarkable ability to leaping from tree to tree in Madagascar's unique spiny forest where virtually every branch is covered with thorns or spines.
		Sifakas generally live in groups of 3-13 individuals -- the average group size is around 6 -- consisting of roughly equal numbers of adult males and females, and many young.
	news.mongabay.com /2005/0530-wildmadagascar.html (946 words)

	SiFAKA -- A Single Function Agent Knowledge Acquisition Tool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		SiFAKA is a GUI-based tool to assist researchers in creating Single Function Agents during the building or extension of SiFA systems.
		The current verion of SiFAKA will take method knowledge, (i.e., knowledge of how selections are made or how criticisms are done), conflict detection knowledge, and conflict resolution knowledge, and combine them to form a single agent.
		SiFAKA is being developed for the DEC Alpha, with the eventual goal of being ported to the PC.
	www.cs.wpi.edu /Research/aidg/SiFA/SiFAKA.html (191 words)

	Sifaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) is mostly white usually with the top of the head being brown and brown spots on the coat.
		The sifaka is usually seen holding onto a vertical trunk or stem (as opposed to Lemur and Eulemur which are usually quadripedal on a horizontal branch), it leaps from trunk to trunk.
		Sometimes it seems to dance for the sheer joy of it-- I have seen one dance all around the path which circles the bungalows-- a truely beautiful sight.
	bibliofile.mc.duke.edu /gww/Berenty/Mammals/Propithecus-verreauxi (178 words)

	Indriidae Family -- Indris
		At home in the trees, sifakas are powerful jumpers but on the ground they are somewhat awkward due to their splayed feet.
		Since trees in their habitat are often dispersed, sifakas cross open ground by sashaying on their hind legs with arms aloft.
		Sifakas also have the remarkable ability to leaping from tree to tree in the spiny forest where virtually every branch is covered with thorns or spines.
	madagascar.mongabay.net /lemurs-indri.html (311 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Sifaka
		Sifaka, common name for any of two or three species of lemurs.
		One species, Verreaux's sifaka, weighs slightly less than 4 kg (less than 8.8 lb) and...
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	ca.encarta.msn.com /Sifaka.html (56 words)

	Diademed sifaka - Propithecus diadema - ARKive
		The diademed sifaka is one of the largest lemurs, with a lustrous, silky coat.
		The diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema diadema) from which the species name is derived is one of the most attractive and largest of the sifakas.
		The coat is white on the head with a dark crown; the rest of the body varies in shades of grey except for the rich golden-orange of the arms and legs, and the hands, feet and face, which are fl.
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Propithecus_diadema (297 words)

	Verreaux's sifaka - Propithecus verreauxi - ARKive
		Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) has a dark brown crown and white tufted ears, in some males the upper chest may also have a reddish-brown tinge, and the face and muzzle of both sexes are very dark.
		All 4 sifakas have a typical body plan with long, powerful hindlimbs and large hands and feet, allowing them to leap from tree to tree in their arboreal habitat.
		Sifakas earn their common name from their 'shifak' sounding alarm call.
	www.arkive.org /species/GES/mammals/Propithecus_verreauxi (316 words)

	National Wildlife: SEDUCED BY SIFAKAS - On a quest for images of some of Earth's rarest primates, two wildlife ...
		A member of the group of primates known as lemurs, the silky sifaka is one of nine known sifaka taxa (species or subspecies), all of them rare and found only on the island of Madagascar.
		Because sifakas occupy nearly the entire range of what's left of these habitats, from spiny desert to tropical rain forest, the animals are "perfect Oflagship' species to attract conservation and ecotourist dollars," says Oxford.
		As the sifakas fed on one family's fruit trees, "we were amazed by these people's tolerance of such blatant theft of their limited resources," says Oxford.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1169/is_2002_June-July/ai_89436318 (1129 words)

	NOVA Online \| The Wilds of Madagascar \| A Great Day for Silkies (June 4, 2000)
		Silky sifaka use this low, rumbling call when they want to be moving on.
		One of the four sifaka we worked with today made this particular call when it began to come out of the anesthetic.
		Though they were asleep, the silky sifaka had their eyes open and drank water freely from a syringe.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/madagascar/dispatches/20000604.html (1591 words)

	Duke Primate Center Sets October Expedition To Find 'Juliet'
		The diademed sifaka, a graceful bright-eyed lemur, is considered perhaps the most beautiful of primates, with its silky fur in rich shades of yellow, orange, gray, white and fl.
		The outlook for diademed sifakas in the wild is especially grim, because logging operations in the Madagascar jungles where they live are rapidly depleting their habitat.
		He cited recent reliable reports of cages of illegally captured diademed sifakas presumably destined for the dinner table that had been seized by local authorities after at least one had already died.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1996-09/DU-DPCS-180996.php (926 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Primates found popping prenatal drug
		And vets often use tannins to prevent miscarriage, raising the intriguing possibility that by eating the plants the sifaka is protecting its developing baby.
		They also found that the sifakas that ate the plants had fewer failed pregnancies than a group of sifakas that did not.
		Huffman accepts that he cannot be sure this is down to the tannins, as the sifakas that eat them might simply live in a less stressful habitat.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn3293 (417 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Verreaux's sifaka
		Verreaux's sifakas have a white body, with a brown crown.
		Verreaux's sifaka inhabit evergreen forest, dry deciduous forest and spiny desert.
		Verreaux's sifaka move through the trees by clinging and leaping between vertical supports.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/334.shtml (259 words)

	Coquerel's Sifaka :: Saint Louis Zoo
		Coquerel's sifakas have a mostly white coat, with maroon patches on the chest and the front of the thighs and arms.
		Sifakas are some of the largest living lemurs.
		These include: research on the impact of habitat disturbance on the feeding ecology of the endangered Milne-Edward's sifaka in Ranamafana National Park; a pilot survey and behavioral study of the critically endangered silky sifaka in Marojejy National Park; and surveys on the critically endangered diademed sifaka in Betampona Natural Reserve.
	www.stlzoo.org /animals/abouttheanimals/mammals/lemursmonkeysapes/coquerelssifaka.htm (890 words)

	NOVA Online \| The Wilds of Madagascar \| Three Hours with the Silkies (June 1, 2000)
		By the loud grunting sound they were making, we knew it was not the silky sifaka, but a group of seven white-faced brown lemurs.
		The good news was that this particular species of lemur seems to enjoy the company of the silky sifaka, and they are often seen traveling together.
		Mireya Mayor is co-principal investigator with Pat Wright of this silky sifaka study at Marojejy National Park.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/madagascar/dispatches/20000601.html (695 words)

	DER Documentary: SIFAKAS OF MADAGASCAR
		The diademmed sifaka is very rare and has only recently been brought into captivity.
		Theverreauxi's sifaka is highly adapted to dry conditions and is shown feeding, locomoting and defending its territory from an incoming group.
		The pacing of this video is slow to allow the observer time to really look at this unusual animal and its highly unusual form of locomotion, which is vertical clinging and leaping between trees and bipedal dancing on the ground.
	www.der.org /films/sifakas-of-madagascar.html (165 words)

	"Hug me I Chatter" Longtemps™ Verreaux's Sifaka by Wild Republic
		On the ground, the sifaka bounds around on its hind legs in an upright position.
		The sifaka, a member of the lemur family, has white fur with fl or chocolate brown patches on the face and the top of the head.
		Sifakas are found in the forests of southern and southwestern Madagascar.
	www.tableandhome.com /prodijdh (218 words)

	Sifaka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sifakas are one of the subspecies of lemur.
		There are nine different species of sifaka including: Coquerels, Diademed, and Verreaux (shown above).
		The name sifaka comes from the sound they make when swinging through the trees: "shif-auk".
	www.ucalgary.ca /~tdmacleo/sifakas.htm (81 words)

	SIFAKA - LoveToKnow Article on SIFAKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sifakas are very variable in coloring, but always show a large amount of white.
		They associate in parties and are mainly arboreal, leaping from bough to bough with an agility that suggests flying through the air.
		Like all their kindred they produce only one offspring at a birth (see PRiMATES).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SI/SIFAKA.htm (222 words)

	Search Results for sifaka - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Sifakas are about 1 m (3 feet) long, roughly half of the length being tail.
		The diet of primates is a factor of their ecology that, during their evolution, has clearly played an important role in their dispersion and adaptive radiation as well as in the development of the...
		Information on the expedition to this region to study carnivorous fossa and lemur silky sifaka.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=sifaka&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (119 words)

	Sifaka - educational resources
		Wildlife Rehabilitation Database: Golden crowned sifaka: Golden crowned sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli).
		Sifaka: Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) is mostly white usually with
		Sifakas live in groups between 3 and 10 Sifakas.
	animals.mongabay.com /featured/Sifaka.html (845 words)

	The Sacramento Zoo--Zoo News
		Sifakas can weigh up to 12 pounds and their fur is a combination of white and maroon-brown.
		While there, Robbie spent a great deal of time with the sifaka pair that will be coming to the Sacramento Zoo.
		The sifaka’s habitat, right next to it, will be 14,260 cubic feet.
	www.saczoo.com /2_happening/_zoo_news.htm (1072 words)

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