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mouse lemurs. Like all
other lemurs,
cheirogaleids live
exclusively on the
island of Madagascar.
Cheirogaleids are
smaller than the
other lemurs and...
- (while also
lumping the
other cheirogaleids in
Cheirogaleus and
illustrating the
cranial similarities between cheirogaleids and Lepilemur) in 1897, the...
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Extinct in the wild (EW): 2
species Critically endangered (CR): 203
species Endangered (EN): 505
species Vulnerable (VU): 536
species Near threatened...
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Extinct in the wild (EW): 2
species Critically endangered (CR): 203
species Endangered (EN): 505
species Vulnerable (VU): 536
species Near threatened...
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multiple sleeping locations. Even
torpor and
hibernation states among cheirogaleids may be
partly due to high
levels of predation.
Infants are protected...
- fruit, tree gum, insects, and
small vertebrates.
Unlike many
other cheirogaleids, they do not
enter a
state of
torpor during the dry season. The northern...
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extant species in
three genera.
Members of the
Cheirogaleidae family are
cheirogaleids, and
include dwarf, mouse,
giant mouse, and fork-marked lemurs. Cheirogaleidae...
- 1056 m
above sea level. No
subspecies are recognised. Like all
other cheirogaleids, the Mittermeier's
mouse lemur is
endemic to Madagascar. It
dwells in...
- the
middle ear—comparable to that of lemurids,
while being similar to
cheirogaleids in
dentition and
postcranial anatomy.
Nothing definitive is
known about...
- (2013). "Parallel
episodes of
phyletic dwarfism in
callitrichid and
cheirogaleid primates".
Journal of
Evolutionary Biology. 26 (4): 810–819. doi:10.1111/jeb...
