lemur
狐猴,狐狸精,狐狸,狐狐狸
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- : any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the superfamily Lemuroidea, inhabiting Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, inclusive of nearly 100 species, most of which have large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: lemurs, which vary significantly in size, include the world’s smallest primates.
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Preferably forests with lots of big-eyed, fluffy lemurs to tug heartstrings elsewhere in the world.
They explain the evolution of monkeys, elephants, kangaroos, rodents, lemurs—and us.
Two years on, says Borgerson, who plans to publish a paper on her findings, lemur poaching in the area has gone down by 30-50%.
Locals in the UNESCO World Heritage Site were eating lemurs and other endangered animals to add protein to their otherwise spare diets.
The lemurs reside at the Reniala Nature Reserve in southwest Madagascar.
He took to Velcroing a stuffed lemur to his arm, christening it George.
The ruffed lemur is the largest of these curious animals, being about as big as a good-sized cat.
There are two lemur-like animals which are so extraordinary that each of them has been put into a family all by itself.
The aye-aye is a lemur, but it differs singularly from all its congeners, and still more from all apes.
Galeopithecus “or the flying Lemur” is mentioned in the corresponding discussion in the Origin, Ed.
Sem′i-an′thracite, coal intermediate between anthracite and semi-bituminous coal; Sem′i-ape, a lemur.