It has a long furry tail assisting it in maintaining its balance as it lands from leaping at a considerable distance.

[6] It has an omnivorous diet consisting of fruit, mature leaves, flowers, bark, sap, soil, insects, centipedes and millipedes.

The diet changes depending on the reproductive stage of the females, during gestation both males and females supplement their diet with flowers, during lactation, more flowers and young leaves and when nonreproductive they eat more mature leaves and miscellaneous other items like millipedes.

For the first three weeks of its life, a young lemur hangs onto its mother's belly, altering its grasp only to nurse.

Following this, it starts to sample solid food, nibbling on whatever the other members of the group happen to be eating.

[7] Depending on the population, the size of these groups can vary, they usually number three to twelve individuals, although five to seven seems to be average.