Golden bamboo lemur
| Golden bamboo lemur | |
|---|---|
| In Ranomafana National Park | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Family: | Lemuridae |
| Genus: | Hapalemur |
| Species: | H. aureus |
| Binomial name | |
| Hapalemur aureus Meier et al., 1987 | |
| Distribution of H. aureus | |
The golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus), bokombolomena or varibolomena in Malagasy, is a medium-sized bamboo lemur endemic to south-eastern Madagascar.
It is able to ingest twelve times as much cyanide as would be considered lethal for other species of its size.