Endangered
Black lemur
Eulemur macaco
Black lemur is a primate in the family Lemuridae (order Primates) — Eulemur macaco, recorded as Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
Appearance
The black lemur displays sexual dimorphism in coloration. Males have black or dark chocolate fur, while females' fur is of a lighter brown color, generally medium brown, chestnut brown or even orange-brown. Males have large black ear tufts, while females have large white ear tufts.
The black lemur is between 90 and 110 centimeters in length, of that 51–65 centimeters are tail. Weight typically ranges between 1.8 and 2.0 kilograms.
Range and habitat
Like all lemurs, it is endemic to Madagascar. The most startling difference between the two species is the eye colour. Eulemur flavifrons, the blue-eyed black lemur, has blue eyes, while Black lemur, the black lemur, has brown or orange eyes, and also has ear tufts. The black lemur occurs in moist forests in the Sambirano region of Madagascar and on nearby islands.
There are reports of the two species hybridizing where their ranges overlap in Manongarivo Special Reserve.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The black lemur primarily eats fruit, that makes up an estimated 78% of its diet. The ripeness of this fruit is vital to the lemur's diet.
It forages in both the upper and middle canopy, especially at night, and during the day it also forages in the understory. In degraded habitats, it also forages on the ground and may even eat soil.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Black lemur is 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 Black lemur, Wikidata item Q55332. 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.
