Western Woolly Lemur

Western Woolly Lemur

Taxobox
name = Western Woolly LemurMSW3 Groves|pages=119]
status = EN
trend = down
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Ganzhorn "et al"|year=2000|id=2435|title=Avahi occidentalis|downloaded=10 May 2006 Listed as Vulnerable (VU A2cd v2.3)]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Indriidae
genus = "Avahi"
species = "A. occidentalis"
binomial = "Avahi occidentalis"
binomial_authority = von Lorenz-Liburnau, 1898

The Western Woolly Lemur or Western Avahi ("Avahi occidentalis") is a species of woolly lemur native to western Madagascar, where they live in dry deciduous forests. These nocturnal animals weigh 0.7-0.9 kg. It is a folivorous species.

The Western Woolly Lemurs live in monogamous pairs together with their offspring.

References

External links

*ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Avahi_occidentalis/ images and movies of the western woolly lemur "(Avahi occidentalis)"]


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