Southern woolly lemur

The southern woolly lemur, Avahi meridionalis, also called the southern avahi, was recognized as a separate species of woolly lemur only in 2006. It is nocturnal and lives in pairs, in groups of two to five animals including offspring from successive years. Females average 1.2 kilograms and males 1.1 kilograms. It eats leaves and buds and much more rarely flowers, preferring young leaves rich in protein. It lives mainly in fragments of south-eastern littoral rainforest in Madagascar, at Mandena and Sainte Luce, and is also known from Andohahela and Ambatotsirongorongo, where forest degradation affects its density and birth rates.