mostly white fur, prominent furry ears and a golden-orange crown. It is
one of the smallest sifakas, weighing around 3.5 kg (7.7 lb) and
measuring approximately 90 cm (35 in) from head to tail. Like all
sifakas, it is a vertical clinger and leaper, and its diet includes
mostly seeds and leaves. The golden-crowned sifaka lives in groups of
around five to six individuals, with groups containing a balanced number
of adult males and females. Its binomial name, Propithecus tattersalli,
denotes its discoverer, Ian Tattersall, who first spotted it in 1974.
Found in gallery, deciduous, and semi-evergreen forest, its restricted
range includes forest fragments around the town of Daraina in northeast
Madagascar. Its estimated population is between 6,000 and
10,000 individuals. Forest fragmentation, habitat destruction,
poaching, slash-and-burn agriculture, and other human factors threaten
its existence, and it is listed by the IUCN Red List as Endangered.
Lawlessness resulting from the 2009 political coup in Madagascar led to
increased poaching of this species, and many were sold to local
restaurants as a delicacy.
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