Essay On Sifaka

Hi! I am a Propithecus candidus commonly known as silky sifaka an extremely rare and mostly threatened species of lemur in Madagascar, believed to only have less than 250 mature individuals (IUCN Redlist, 2014). Before we were thought to be an albino of the Propithecus diadema or diademed sifaka because we are so much alike in appearance. But through laboratory researches it has been proven that we are not albinos of the diademed sifakas and so we are given a different name (Pieczenik, 2014).
Although we are commonly known as silky sifaka we are also called as “Angels of the Forest” since we have this ability to leap from tree to tree as far as ten yards and also we have a silky white fur. So when someone saw us in the tree tops, they would probably say that they saw a flying angel (Hendry, 2010). We are named silky sifaka because as I said previously, we have these “long, silky, white fur, which is sometimes tinted with silver hues on top of the head, the back and limbs” and sifaka because of the shee-fak sound we make to contact others, although unlike most shifakas we also use the zzuss sound to communicate with others especially when there is a predator (Silky sifaka, 2010).
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“About 45% of each day is spent at rest, while 22% is spent searching for food” while the other percentage are spent on socializing and moving. Identical to other primates we are social creature and we enjoy playing and grooming. Grooming can happen individually or with others, usually with the same sex, although opposite sex grooming is not actually rare. Typically, males are more prone on travelling because they are more socially active and seek others for socialization and females are often seen resting than males. Similar to other sifakas when moving we cling vertically and usually while resting we are seen “clinging to vertical tree trunks, with knees flexed and held close to the abdomen” (Correa,