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Lemur

(Science: zoology) One of a family (Lemuridae) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See galago, indris, and Colugo.

Origin: L, a ghost, specter. So called on account of its habit of going abroad by night.


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... a possum. I can tell you that it is a primate. I don't think however it is a lemur (but it is hard to tell in this picture). Look at the nose, lemurs usually have whiskers and a dog like nose, in this picture(from what I can tell) both those features are lacking. Looks like a pygmy marmoset ...

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by Darwin420
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by Enzyme
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Natural Pressure

... are the pressure of an organism to adapt to a place to a climate and so on.In islands like Madagascar the phenotype has not changed much[for lemurs] due to the loss of a major pressure called interspecific pressure to a certain extentthis means when lemurs first arrived to madagascar their ...

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by David George
Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:13 am
 
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Humans evolved from animals that can glide

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by David George
Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:30 am
 
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Humans evolved from animals that can glide

... few million years in the Paleocene epoch Plesiadapiformes evolved. This genus is the ancestor of the rodents along their side the flying lemurs evolved[They had their own genus].The bats evolved a patagium not to glide but to fly in the earlier times to provide lift.The first formed bats ...

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by David George
Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:32 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Humans evolved from animals that can glide
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