Critically Endangered
Mongoose lemur
Eulemur mongoz
The mongoose lemur is a small primate in the family Lemuridae, native to Madagascar and introduced to the Comoros Islands.
Appearance
Both sexes are born with white beards, but become obviously dimorphic around six weeks of age when the males develop red beards and red cheeks.
The mongoose lemur ranges in size from 12 to 18 in (300 to 460 mm) long plus a tail of 16 to 25 in (410 to 640 mm).
Range and habitat
The mongoose lemur lives in dry deciduous forests on the island of Madagascar and in the humid forests on the islands of the Comoros. This makes the mongoose lemur one of only two lemurs found outside of Madagascar, though it is an introduced species in the Comoros. The mongoose lemur is a small primate in the family Lemuridae, native to Madagascar and introduced to the Comoros Islands.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The mongoose lemur mostly eats fruit, though flowers, leaves, and nectar also make up part of its diet. (they may use the nectar of the non-native kapok tree, Ceiba pentandra for nearly eighty percent of their diet during the dry season in some parts of their range). Their breeding, eating, and activity habits are largely shaped around the season.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Mongoose 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 Mongoose lemur, Wikidata item Q543695. 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.
