Golden Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur aureus)
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Description: Fact sheet from EDGE, a conservation organization that focuses specifically on threatened species that represent a significant amount of unique evolutionary history.
EDGE :: Mammal Species Information The golden bamboo lemur is so-called because of the golden fur around its face, inner limbs and belly. It was first described by Western science less than 20 years ago, in 1987. Bamboo lemurs are the only primates in the world that specialise on a bamboo diet. This species has evidently evolved resistance to the high levels of cyanide within the young bamboo leaves that it eats. Every day it consumes the equivalent of 12 times the lethal dose of cyanide for most mammals! The species is threatened primarily by the continued loss of its forest habitat due to slash-and-burn agriculture and timber extraction.
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