Bamboo Lemur

An exclusive resident of southeastern coastal Madagascar, the Bamboo Lemur is a medium-sized primate characterized by its grey-brown fur, short muzzle and round and hairy ears. It prefers damp forests where bamboo grows readily and is most active just after dawn. The diet of the Bamboo Lemur is coincidentally almost all bamboo, and its ability to detoxify the high amounts of cyanide from the bamboo shoots is still not understood.

This primates tends to live in groups of 4 to 7 individuals, which interestingly have a practice of defecating in turn, with adults going first followed by juveniles. It is thought that this serves as a communicatory function for demarcating territory. Bamboo Lemur females come into estrus once a year with a single infant being born after a gestation of some 140 days.