Evolving an unusual appetite, golden bamboo lemurs devour young bamboo shoots, shunned by most animals because they contain cyanide. Lemurs' typical daily dose of the poison is enough to kill a ...

Simons, in litt.), but it is unclear how this figure was reached. It is probably even less numerous than the recently discovered Golden Bamboo Lemur (E. Simons, in litt.). Numbers are certainly ...

The presence here of the greater bamboo lemur (Hapalemur simus) and the golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus) recorded in the 1980s lent urgency to efforts to preserve the area. “It is an ...