Crowned lemur
Eulemur coronatus
Seen by the oracleIts power
It doesn’t choose between day and night: it lives in both, in small groups where everyone knows each other.
Estimated wild population
Fewer than 10,000 adults
Trend
Declining
Range
Far north of Madagascar
Main threat
Deforestation, bush fires, hunting, pressure from farming in northern Madagascar
Meet it
It really exists. It is waiting for you at the Parc Animalier d’Auvergne.
The crowned lemur is one of the smallest members of the genus Eulemur. It is easy to recognise by the black and orange triangle-shaped crown on top of its head, which is more marked in males. It is active both by day and by night, and lives in mixed groups of 3 to 15 in the dry and wet forests of northern Madagascar. It mostly eats fruit, flowers and leaves. Because of massive deforestation and hunting, its numbers have fallen sharply in recent decades. The IUCN lists it among the species to protect first in Madagascar.
What the Park does
EEP programme, IUCN action for Madagascar, listed as a conservation priority