The blue-eyed black lemur lives in a area south of the Andranomalaza River in Northwestern Madagascar. Their bodies are
fourteen to sixteen inches long, with tails eighteen to twenty inches
long. Blue-eyed black lemurs are the only primates other than man with
true blue eyes. The gestation period for babies is 4 1/2 months. Infants
begin to leave their mothers six to eight weeks after they are born. In
the wild these creatures eat fruit, leaves, flowers, and nectar. While
kept in a zoo they eat grapes, carrots, oranges, escaraole, raisins,
apples, and monkey chow; gum and maple tree leaves. Their life span in
the wild is unknown, but while kept in captivity it is twenty to thirty
years. The blue-eyed black lemur is endangered, with its population
being only 100 to 1,000 animals.