One of the world's most diverse primates, lemurs range in size from a mouse to a medium-size dog. |
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It is a primate, close kin to the bushbabies of sub-Saharan Africa and the lemurs of Madagascar. |
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Other new arrivals to the park this winter will include mandrills and bamboo lemurs. |
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Besides gibbons, singing primates include the Madagascan lemurs called indris, the tarsiers of Sulawesi, and the tiff monkeys of South America. |
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Foreigners can also volunteer with Earthwatch to help track lemurs or radio-collar Madagascar's lynx-like fossa. |
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Catlike predators with long tails, fossas hunt everything from lemurs and mice to wild pigs. |
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Besides working on lorises, she has studied ruffed lemurs, flying squirrels, opossums, civets, and several species of bats. |
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Even endangered species, like Diana monkeys, lemurs, and gibbons, are for sale. |
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Primitive primates called lemurs fill the ecological roles of woodpeckers, squirrels and monkeys. |
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It was also home to animals that preyed on lemurs, among them the large, catlike fossa, which I was to encounter many times. |
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Aladar the iguanodon, the Tarzan of the dinosaur world, is raised by lemurs. |
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Primates including forest-dwelling ancestors of today's lemurs and tarsiers flourished in the trees. |
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A year later, I became an external PhD student at the college, studying seed dispersal by lemurs in Madagascar. |
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In other words, the movie implies that primates, like lemurs trace an evolutionary ancestry that goes back to the dinosaurs. |
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There were rodents, bats, elephants and lemurs with pointed snouts and long tails. |
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As the lemurs digest the fleshy fruit, the seed is passed through their system, normally away from the parent tree. |
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The zoo is really cool and we saw all the favourites the best of which were lemurs, elephants and the zebras of course. |
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Here you'll see lemurs, those fascinating primates unique to Madagascar, as well as a variety of other rare creatures and plants. |
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In addition, researchers know that some monkeys, lemurs, and other mammals also eavesdrop on neighboring species. |
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The most famous of the island's animals are lemurs, large-eyed primates that leap through the trees. |
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Other lemurs in the forest respond in similar ways to the fat-tail, according to Peter Kappeler, head of ethology and ecology at the center. |
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Apart from those already mentioned there are zebras, camels, baboons, lemurs, sea lions, humboldt penguins, tapirs and meerkats. |
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Other lemurs cross razor-like mountaintops to reach precious pools of water. |
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Previous research on the brains of these animals had shown that indris have a much smaller olfactory bulb than do other lemurs. |
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Nearly 25 species of apes, monkeys, lemurs, and other primates are imperilled and may soon disappear. |
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Rebekah got down on her hunkers beside one of the lemurs and she patted him. |
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What is really cool is that the lemurs also become intoxicated by the narcotic effects of the chemicals. |
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They found lemurs the size of gorillas, hippos no bigger than pigs and enormous elephant birds. |
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Numerous primates, including chimps, baboons, black lemurs and capuchins, dip into the jungle pharmacy to combat parasites. |
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The most common assumption from anatomical evidence has been that they group with primates, flying lemurs, and tree shrews, forming the Archonta. |
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The pictures show baby lemurs from Madagascar that have been illegally smuggled into the country. |
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Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, is renowned for its wealth of unique plants and land animals, including lemurs, fossas, and giant jumping rats. |
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Till now, scientists thought the common ancestor of lemurs and lorises was a native of Africa, but the discovery in Pakistan suggests alternative scenarios. |
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The lemurs of Madagascar are the surviving members of a lineage that has been genetically isolated from the rest of the primate family for at least 65 million years. |
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Like much of Madagascar's wildlife, lemurs are under serious threats. |
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It's well known among primatologists that the number of males within a group of, say, baboons, chimpanzees, or lemurs is related to the number of females. |
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Animal keepers have long recognized that some species, such as ring-tailed lemurs and snow leopards, adapt better to captivity than other species do. |
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As planned, I set up a base camp in the north of the park and set out to study the two largest lemurs, Propithecus diadema diadema and Indri indri. |
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Millions of dollars went to the problem of the fur of the lemurs who pal around with the dinosaurs. |
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The big star is the Indri Indri, the biggest of all lemurs, with black and white fur and no tail. |
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Lastly, the most representative mammals of Madagascar are the lemurs, primitive prosimians which have kept a few insectivore features. |
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Most lemurs of Madagascar and the nearby Comoros Islands have large eyes, foxlike faces, monkeylike bodies, and long hind limbs. |
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The woodcutters also hunt and uninhibitedly shoot down lemurs in order to procure meat for food or to be sold to restaurants as delicacies. |
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Her approach to her work was as gentle as the lilting voice in which she chatted to the lemurs, a smiling human in a Tilley hat. |
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For her part, Yoder intends to incorporate the flying lemur in her own studies of the relationships among true lemurs and their relatives. |
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Groups of closely related species, such as lemurs or higher apes, had similar cerebrotypes. |
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A one-way mirror covered one side of the closed chamber that permitted observation by experimenter without disturbing mouse lemurs. |
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The zoo specializes mainly in rare and endangered species of reptiles, small felines, lemurs, marmosets and other primates. |
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Over 80 percent of species there are endemic and include rare and threatened lemurs. |
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Half an hour later we went past the island Nosy Mangabe which is famous for its nocturnal lemurs. |
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But this time round the main subject of environmental awareness-raising concerned lemurs rather than the Mikea. |
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Elsewhere, species from tiny mouse lemurs to massive mountain gorillas face challenges to survive. |
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This species does not occur with any other sifakas and cannot be confused with any lemurs within its range. |
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That country is home to unique animal species, and it has the world's greatest concentration of lemurs. |
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At the birthday party, as if to underline that this was a zoo, the speakers had to make themselves heard above the screeching of nearby black and white ruffed lemurs. |
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Fossils suggest that lemurs, bush babies, lorises, aye-ayes, and their relatives spilt off from the ancestors of monkeys and apes around 55 million years ago. |
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Aye-ayes have large, naked, mobile ears, a muzzle that is shorter than that of most lemurs but longer than lorises, and large eyes with yellowish brown irises. |
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Other endangered primates now include lemurs in Madagascar, tamarins in Brazil, langurs in Vietnam, orang-utans in Sumatra, and gorillas and a variety of monkeys in Africa. |
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Fossils suggest that lemurs, bush babies, lorises, aye-ayes, and their relatives split off from the ancestors of monkeys and apes around 55 million years ago. |
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Onshore, scout for lemurs in the rainforest with Malagasy guides. |
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These new finds double the age of the sparse fossil record for lorises and bushbabies, which with lemurs make up a primate group called the strepsirrhines. |
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Dandy the Reindeer had to be given regular cold showers while blocks of flavoured ice were being fed to lemurs and squirrel monkeys at Blackpool Zoo. |
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The largest of the living lemurs are called indris and sifakas. |
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The gift was much appreciated by four legs and feathers including red pandas, sakis, spider monkeys, lemurs, chimps and macaws. |
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In contrast, Liam popped into ZSL London Zoo for a bit of one-to-one action with the zoo's Madagascan ringtail lemurs. |
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Hike through the canyons and along the pathways of the huge rock massifs of I'Isalo National Park, home to the ring-tailed lemurs. |
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Each room has its own private balcony, and you will surely see ring-tailed lemurs during your stay. |
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Ring-tailed lemurs come from the island of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa. |
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Meet ring-tailed, collared, black and white and red ruffed lemurs in their one-acre woodland home. |
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Scientists know surprisingly little about Madagascar's mouse lemurs, but they're busy collecting information. |
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The family tree, or cladogram, below shows the branches of primates, the order of mammals that includes humans, monkeys, apes, and lemurs. |
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But it was the lemurs skipping and bickering outside, or taking a siesta with all four limbs adangle from a creeper, that provided even stronger evidence for her most arresting discovery. |
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Our easy walks will take you into a sacred forest inhabited by catta lemurs, to a waterfall, a natural swimming pool, and nearby Barabory villages. |
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Every day, new horrific news about the extent of the illegal felling of trees and the hunting of lemurs in Masoala National Park as well as other national parks and protected forests in Madagascar reach Zurich Zoo. |
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More one-off studies will also benefit from the tool, such as those concerning mangroves, the distribution of lemurs, which live in tree cover, and invasive plant prevention. |
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This discovery should be a rallying cry for the world that we can protect other vulnerable and endangered species, whether they be gorillas in Africa, tigers in India, or lemurs in Madagascar. |
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As primary folivores, it seems highly unlikely that the koala lemurs were major players in seed dispersal. |
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Giant parrots nibbled seed from the children's fingertips and my sister peeled a couple of satsumas for the lemurs. |
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Ruffed lemurs are the largest and arguably most impressive members of the Lemuridae family. |
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And, of course, there is the chance to catch up with old friends, like the cute red pandas, playful meerkats, lively lemurs and sleek otters. |
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Poor old lemurs required over 500 sessions. However, comparing data from various studies can be unreliable because slightly different methods may be used. |
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Red ruffed lemurs Fang and Igor arrived from Dublin Zoo and staff at Twycross are hoping one of the pair might breed with resident lemur Nadia. |
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Ring-tailed lemurs have both aerial and terrestrial alarms, but ruffed lemurs do not. |
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There are just 10,000 black and white ruffed lemurs left in the wild and numbers are dwindling fast. |
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They were even beautiful, especially when the white sifakas sailed between the trees like ballet-dancers, or when the ringtailed lemurs, her favourites, held up their tails like shining question-marks before the sun. |
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In some primate societies, she found, it is females who dominate, and not the males. A cuff on the noseUntil then, she had studied lemurs in captivity. |
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Rather, it is because it is probably an early member of the line that led to humans, via monkeys and apes, as opposed to the one that led to lemurs and lorises. |
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The future reserve will help conserve a number of Critically Endangered species, such as the Madagascar serpent eagle and three out of 11 varieties of Malagasy lemurs. |
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It hosts many emblematic species, such as polar bears, gorillas, okapis, lemurs, giant turtles and tortoises, European bisons and American wapitis. |
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But despite their bantam brainpans, lemurs are extremely alert and inventive. |
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Worth seeing is the exotarium with apes and reptiles, the beasts pavilion, the open-air outlets of lynxes and leopards, the islands of lemurs and the Amazon tropic pavilion. |
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Madagascar's giant lemurs, pygmy hippos, and elephant birds survived all the way into the Middle Ages. |
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And there are lots of unusual animals to meet including squirrel monkeys, lemurs, ostriches, red deer, porcupines, polecats, chipmunks and owls. |
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For example, sifaka lemurs living in the northwestern deciduous forests mostly eat leaves. |
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A makeshift trail was cut far up a slippery hill home to the worldAAEs few hundred remaining silky sifaka lemurs. |
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Madagascan lemurs have filled every niche, with sifakas leaping 15 metres between branches. |
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Live animals — kangaroos, lemurs, a kinkajou and more — will be presented by Two by Two Zoo, and the Flight of the Raptor, a demonstration of birds of prey, will take place three times daily. |
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The researchers also announced a second new lemur species, one of a group called giant mouse lemurs. |
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Most scientists consider adapiforms as basal members of the suborder that includes lemurs and lorises, which are distantly related to humans and other anthropoids. |
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We also see more bouncing lemurs, including one that has stolen Chris Evans' old hair, dinky mouse lemurs and babies. |
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There we encountered black-and-white-ruffed lemurs, white-fronted brown lemurs, and brown mouse lemurs. |
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Last month, Twycross keepers took in two male red ruffed lemurs, now one of the rarest primates on the planet, in an attempt to save them from extinction. |
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Fabienne Aujard of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and her associates tested the effect of four weeks of resveratrol supplementation in grey mouse lemurs. |
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It's as if the indri, the largest living lemurs, are singing at the door of my simple rainforest lodge in the lowland jungle of eastern Madagascar. |
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He gave the money to the Madagascar Fauna Group, setting in motion a projec t to transport captive-bred black and white ruffed lemurs and restore them to the jungle. |
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The pupils met black and white ruffed lemurs, Broom and Olivia, the Rothschild's giraffe family, Sumatran tigers Joaoand Daseep, before heading up to visit the penguins. |
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The researchers collected scents before and after giving the lemurs a form of the hormone progestin called medroxyprogesterone acetate, or MPA, sold as Depo-Provera. |
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Those that remained, a few tarsiers, lorises and lemurs, could be viewed as a somewhat unprogressive lot, relative to the heyday of prosimian radiations. |
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An international team of scientists has discovered three unknown species of mouse lemurs, the world's smallest primates, living in the endangered forests of Madagascar. |
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Kirkley Hall Zoological Gardens has over 100 species of wild and domesticated animals, including ring-tailed and ruff lemurs, meerkats, coatis, marmosets and reindeer. |
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Weighing in at about 1 ounce, Archicebus was slightly smaller than the tiniest living primates, Madagascar's pygmy mouse lemurs, the researchers report. |
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Mouse lemurs, said to be the most primitive primate, are found exclusively on the island of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa. |
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He will learn jungle survival during five weeks on the remote island of Madagascar, home to many unique species such as lemurs, giant tortoises and elephant birds. |
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