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Hi! I am a Propithecus candidus commonly known as silky sifaka an extremely rare and mostly threatened species of lemur in Madagascar, believed to only have less than 250 mature individuals (IUCN Redlist, 2014). Before we were thought to be an albino of the Propithecus diadema or diademed sifaka because we are so much alike in appearance. But through laboratory researches it has been proven that we are not albinos of the diademed sifakas and so we are given a different name (Pieczenik, 2014). Although we are commonly known as silky sifaka we are also called as “Angels of the Forest” since we have this ability to leap from tree to tree as far as ten yards and also we have a silky white fur. So when someone saw us in the tree tops, they would probably say that they saw a flying angel (Hendry, 2010). We are named silky sifaka because as I said previously, we have these “long, silky, white fur, which is sometimes tinted with silver hues on top of the head, the back and limbs” and sifaka because of the shee-fak sound we make to contact others, although unlike most shifakas we also use the zzuss sound to communicate with others especially when there is a predator (Silky sifaka, 2010). We …show more content…

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