The eastern woolly lemur almost has an owl-look with its large eyes, small rounded head, and ears that are mostly hidden.

Its diet consists mainly of leaves and buds with fruits, flowers, and bark.

Eastern woolly lemurs live in monogamous pairs together with their offspring.

According to one study, a male lemur rarely interacts with more than one other individual when sleeping, traveling or grooming.

They prefer to sleep on branches or in dense vegetation at an average height of 3 m.[8] As of 2020[update], the eastern woolly lemur continues to exist; however, based on a 2000 study, the entire lemur population might be endangered if the forests continues to "disappear at a disastrous rate".