White-footed sportive lemur

The white-footed Sportive Lemur ( Lepilemur leucopus ) is a living primate in Madagascar from the group of lemurs within the lemurs.

Features

White-footed Sportive lemurs are the smallest lemurs. They reach a body length 18-21 cm and a tail length of 23-25 ​​centimeters. It weighs 0.5 to 0.6 kilograms. Their fur is light gray at the top, the shoulders, upper arms and thighs may have a slight brownish tinge. The throat and belly are white gray, this color can extend to the edges. The rounded head is gray, behind the large round ears are small, white tufts. The large eyes are surrounded by gray-white, spectacle-type fields.

Distribution and habitat

White-footed Sportive lemurs inhabit the extreme south of Madagascar, their habitat are lined with Didiereaceae thorn savanna and gallery forests.

Way of life

White-footed Sportive lemurs, like all lemurs nocturnal, during the day they sleep in tree hollows or among the lush vegetation. They live in relatively small areas of 0.2 to 0.4 hectares. Compared to same-sex conspecifics territory is marked with shouts, the area of a male can, however, with the one or more females overlap. Sometimes use of a male and a female in the same bed, but they go separately in search of food.

Their diet consists mainly of leaves. The low nutritional value of their food they do with long periods of inactivity, especially in the dry season, up for it.

Between October and November, the female gives birth after 130 -day gestation period, a single young is born.

Endangering

Due to the inaccuracy of the range of - in recent years many new lemur species have been described - can give any details about the level of danger. Main danger is likely to be the destruction of their habitat by conversion to cattle pastures. The IUCN lists the species under "too little data available " ( data deficient ).