Wild Facts

Happy Monday, everyone!  I am trying to sit down and write up this Wild Fact but I am still pretty excited with the Gold Medal performance by Alexandre Bilodeau in the Men’s Moguls.  This is the first Gold Medal for a Canadian on home soil.  I wanted to congratulate all of the athletes that are at the games as their hard work and dedication is truly inspiring.  As you can tell, I have spent most of my weekend watching the Olympic events.  I really do love the winter Olympics and everything they stand for. But enough about the unity of sports, let’s get on with today’s Wild Fact!

I know I have written about lemur-like animals in the past but my better half showed me an article and a photo of the Greater Bamboo Lemur today so I wanted to share some information about this cute animal with all of you. This larger, grey coloured lemur is critically endangered and considered to be one of the world’s rarest animals.  Unfortunately, their population continues to decrease as a result of the destruction of their rain-forest home. I don’t know why everyone wants to destroy the rain-forest! It seems like such an incredible place.  I had better hurry up and witness it first hand before it is gone forever!

The Greater Bamboo Lemur is unique since it is one of the few animal species that rely solely on bamboo to survive.  These crazy animals are even able to digest the bamboo shoots which is known to contain cyanide.  At this point in time, we are unsure how they are able to process this harmful chemical.  This is an important trait for any of you people trying to poison your Greater Bamboo Lemur to collect the inheritance.  It won’t work on these guys! There really isn’t a lot of information on these particular lemur’s yet so if you are looking for a thesis project, may I suggest studying the Greater Bamboo Lemur, which can be found in Madagascar.  Hey, look at that!  One more reason to go to Madagascar.

Greater Bamboo Lemur Fast Fact: We may not know too much about the greater bamboo lemur but we do know that the young like to suck their thumbs.  Perhaps we should get them a pacifier!

Thanks for reading today’s post! I will be back tomorrow with another interesting animal species, provided I don’t get too caught up with the Olympics.