A Pygmy Primate In Madagascar on a dark starry help from extinction, please help the night, you are wandering into a pygmy mouse lemur. deciduous forest, and bright eyes This animal is an herbivore. are staring straight at you. The That means that it eats flowers, fruits eyes look like marbles staring right and other plants. It also eats insects, through your body. You walk slowly so it may be known as an insectivore. towards those beady eyes and you It is hunted and eaten by large find a lemur about the size of a pink mammals such as wild dogs. It is also eraser and weighing as much as a eaten by birds such as eagles. pack of gum. It has a creamy light brown/grey color, and its tail is twice This the size of its body. On its face is a primate is very black stripe. What have you found? shy. It is not a Congratulations, you have found the very social animal. endangered Pygmy Mouse Lemur. It may live in groups of up to 15. This species Micocebus myoxinus The female pygmy was listed as endangered on June 2, mouse lemur is 1970. This tricky animal was thought bigger and more to be extinct, but was found again by dominant than the Jutta Shmid and Peter Kappeler. male pygmy mouse Other people thought that this animal lemur. The pygmy mouse lemur is was an immature subspecies of the nocturnal because of the hot habitat reddish-brown mouse lemur and grey that it lives in. Also, this animal lives mouse lemur. It was believed to be in trees and almost never leaves them endangered because of forests being except for an emergency like a cut down and being hunt or caught predator. for illegal exotic pet trade. So now I can conclude that You can stop endangerment by this harmless pygmy primate needs planting more trees and by helping your help to be saved from extinction! enforce the laws. The Pygmy Mouse Lemur is a small creature and hard to By: Anthony B. find but still remember how much it needs your help. So whenever you think of some animal you want to A Pygmy Primate Works Cited: "Return of the Little Lemur." New Scientist 15 July 1995: 11. Pygmy Mouse Lemur." Endangered Species. 29 May 2009 <http://www.earthsendangered.com/>. "Pygmy Mouse Lemur." The Animal Files. 29 May 2009 <www.theanimalfiles.com/>. .