Feeding
A Coquerel's dwarf lemur has just plucked a red berry from a magnolia bush. Click image for larger version.
Coquerel's dwarf lemurs are nocturnal omnivores, with a varied diet that includes a variety of fruits, insects, spiders, leaves, small birds, chameleons, flowers, buds, and tree gum. Another favorite food, available only in certain seasons, and especially favored by the lemurs during the winter months when food is scarce, is the secretions of the larvae of certain Homopteran insects. At certain times of the year, wild Coquerel's dwarf lemurs might depend on these insect secretions for over 50% of their food intake. Foraging usually occurs at the lower levels of the canopy, and this lemur has even been seen on the ground. Coquerel's dwarf lemurs can apparently survive in secondary forest, and it has even been sighted around coffee plantations. There have been some reports from farmers that these lemurs invade local cashew plantations to feed on the nuts.