Golden Bamboo Lemur

 

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Scientific name: Hapalemur aureus

Conservation status:critically-endanered

Life expectancy: 12 years in the wild

Gestation period: 138 days

 

Lifestyle and Location:

  • These little lemurs like damp forests with lots of bamboo which they can munch on. Bamboo makes up most of their diet.
  • They live in groups of 2-6 lemurs and become fully mature at 2 years old.
  • Golden bamboo lemurs are most active at dawn and dusk, and also sometimes during the night.

Appearance:

They are a medium sized bamboo lemur that have greyish-brown fur. Their muzzles are very short and they have round and hairy ears. They vary from 28-45 cm and weigh around 1.6 kg. It has been given the name ‘golden’ because they have golden/yellow fur on their faces, inner limb and belly.

Joss‘s Facts

  • They have around 0.31 square miles of territory in groups of 2-6.
  • Fully grown adults will eat around 500 g of bamboo each day and this contains about 12 times the lethal dosage of cyanide (an extremely toxic chemical) for most animals its size.
  • Bamboo lemurs are the only primate that specialise on a bamboo diet.