- Most
existing lemurs are small, have a
pointed snout,
large eyes, and a long tail. They
chiefly live in
trees and are
active at night.
Lemurs share resemblance...
- true
lemurs (Eulemur) and the
other two genera:
Lemur and Hapalemur. The ring-tailed
lemur is
thought to
share closer affinities to the
bamboo lemurs of...
- ghost-like appearance,
reflective eyes, and
ghostly cries of
lemurs. In Goethe's Faust, a
chorus of
Lemurs who
serve Mephistopheles dig Faustus' grave. In the...
- The
brown mouse lemur (Microcebus rufus) is a
small primate, and like the
other mouse lemurs can only be
found on the
island of Madagascar. They are known...
-
lemurs are now
restricted to 10% of the island, or
approximately 60,000
square kilometers (23,000
square miles), with many
facing extinction.
Lemurs are...
-
ruffed lemurs of the
genus Varecia are
strepsirrhine primates and are the
largest extant lemurs within the
family Lemuridae. Like all
living lemurs, they...
- The
bamboo lemurs or
gentle lemurs are the
lemurs in
genus Hapalemur.
These medium-sized
primates live
exclusively on Madagascar.
Bamboo lemurs were first...
- are most
closely related to
mouse lemurs within Cheirogaleidae, a
family of small,
nocturnal lemurs.
Giant mouse lemurs sleep in
nests during the day and...
-
which contains the
mouse lemurs,
dwarf lemurs,
giant mouse lemurs, fork-marked
lemurs, and hairy-eared
dwarf lemur. The
mouse lemur genus Microcebus includes...
- rest of the
Malagasy lemurs. However,
molecular results have
consistently placed Daubentonia as the most
basally diverging of
lemurs. The most parsimonious...
