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Black Lemur
Eulemur macaco (Black Lemur · クロキツネザル)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its maximum weight of 3 kg is about one and a half 2 L bottles of water (Comparison).
- 💡 Its diet includes coffee, papayas, cashews, and mangoes, connecting it to the coffee and tropical fruits we drink and eat.
- 💡 Although hunted for food and sold as pets in Madagascar, lemurs also attract tourists to the island and help support the local economy (ADW).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
Site-computed relative index from recorded values; not a formal scientific metric.
📖 1. Overview
The Black Lemur is a lemur living in the forests of northwestern Madagascar whose males and females have completely different coat colors.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Males are dark chocolate-brown to black, while females have chestnut to golden-brown bodies with a black muzzle and feet. Their eyes are brown or orange.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
Fruits make up about 73% of its diet along with small amounts of flowers, nectar, leaves, and bark—mainly coffee, papaya, cashew, and plum fruits in the dry season, and papaya, mango, and palm fruits in the wet season. In groups of 4–15 individuals, females are dominant and take first access to food and water.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List EN (2020) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/8212/182235113
- • IUCN Red List category EN — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • mammaldiversity.org — 1000997
- • iucnredlist.org — 182235113
- • wikidata.org — Q55332
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Eulemur macaco female 01.jpg
- • animaldiversity.org — Eulemur macaco
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Eulemur mongoz)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.