Male Silky Sifaka in habitat, Marojejy, Madagascar
To give an idea of the situation: we were off-path on a very steep edge, holding on to trees to not slide down. We could only follow these wonderful areas roughly in the frame you see here, beyond that our own options would end into a steep cliff. Pretty dangerous for us, but not for these masters of trees, they simply call it "home".
The silky sifaka, or silky simpona, is a large lemur characterized by long, silky, white fur. It has a very restricted range in northeastern Madagascar, where it is known locally as the simpona. It is one of the rarest mammals on Earth, and is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as one of the world's 25 most critically endangered primates. The silky sifaka is one of nine sifaka species, and one of four former subspecies of diademed sifaka. Studies in 2004 and 2007 compared.. more
