Species: Blue-Eyed Black or Sclaters Lemur (Blauwoogmaki)

Latin name: Eulemur Flavifrons

Originates from primary and secondary sub-tropical moist and dry forests in the northwestern tip of Madagascar.

Current status: Critically Endangered

Did you know:

&The Blue-Eyed Black Lemurs tail is non-prehensile and longer than its body.

&They are sexually dimorphic  the male is the embodiment of the species name: black with blue eyes, though their hair can be tinged brown at the roots. The females however are reddish-brown in color with their underside and outine of their face a lighter tan, also with blue eyes.

&Aside from humans, Blue-Eyed Black Lemurs are the only primates to consistently have blue eyes.

&Although the Blue-Eyed Black Lemur and the Black Lemur look similar, they can be told apart by their eye color  blue for the Blue-Eyed and orange for the Black. Blacks also have ear tufts and long and spiky cheek hairs.

&Until 2008, the Blue-Eyed was actually considered a subspecies of the Black Lemur. Their ranges overlap in some places, and hybridization has been known between the two, but all offspring sported orange eyes.

&Due to almost all of this species habitat having been destructed to create farm land, they are critically endangered and nearly extinct in the wild less than 1,000 are thought to remain in the wild. Sadly, they also havent been intensively studied so not much is truly known about them.

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