Critically Endangered
Northern sportive lemur
Lepilemur septentrionalis
Northern sportive lemur is a primate in the family Lepilemuridae (order Primates) — Lepilemur septentrionalis, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
The primate
Northern sportive lemurs grow to a height of around 53 cm (21 in).
Range and habitat
The northern sportive lemur inhabits a highly restricted range in Northern Madagascar. The species is located from the left bank of the Loky River to the coast. The natural the species consists of small patches of deciduous forests north of the Irodo River, near the villages of Madirobe and Ankarongana in the Sahafary region and in the immediate vicinity of Andrahona, that usually lives in a small mountain that arises out lowlands south of Antsiranana.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The northern sportive lemur is nocturnal, foraging for food at night and sleeping in the day. Females will leave their young on a branch when foraging for food.
Males are solitary and territorial, and their territories often overlap with many female home ranges. The northern sportive lemur is a foliovorous species, though they will also eat fruits and flowers to supplement their diet.
In crisis
As a result of severe ecological and human pressures, the lemur is classified as Critically Endangered (CR) by the IUCN Red List. Large birds of prey, Falconiformes and Strigiformes, are also natural predators of the lemurs. Along with these ecological threats, the arboreal lemur species are also highly threatened by human charcoal production, that still continues to remove the only remaining forest habitat of the lemurs, greatly restricting their range.
This combination of threats has severely reduced the population of the lemurs to only a few hundred individuals, as estimated by the IUCN Red List.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Northern sportive 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 Northern sportive lemur, Wikidata item Q233936. 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.
