Critically Endangered
Bemaraha woolly lemur
Avahi cleesei
Bemaraha woolly lemur is a primate in the family Indriidae (order Primates) — Avahi cleesei, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
Its face is slightly more pale than its upper head, and the area above the nose extends to the forehead to contrast with the triangular pattern created by the forehead fur. The fur that borders the face is a black tone and forms a dark pattern in the shape of a line or stripe that resembles the letter "V". Its eyes are a maroon color with black eyelids, and the snout is black and hairless, while the corners of the mouth have a white tone.
The diurnal animal weighs about 5–6 kilograms (11–13 lb), has brown skin with white regions on the rear and inside of the thighs and has a short damp nose, large plate eyes, and ears that hardly stand out from the skin.
Range and habitat
The Bemaraha woolly lemur, also known as Cleese's woolly lemur, is a woolly lemur native to western Madagascar, named after John Cleese. The habitat is limited to the Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve in western Madagascar, that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The animal is probably threatened with becoming extinct in the long run, since the size of the population is unknown so far and its habitat shrinks continuously.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
It typically has a strictly vegetarian diet of leaves and buds, living together in small families.
In crisis
The local population calls the species dadintsifaky, that means "grandfather of the sifaka", because it is similarly sized to sifakas, but more ponderous, heavyset and has ample greyish-brown fur.
Bemaraha woolly lemur is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Bemaraha woolly lemur, Wikidata item Q1099688. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
