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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Sifakas are soft, silky furred Al Jolson lemurs. Their feet are like chameleon feet but with fingers. I’m old fashioned, I don’t think a thumb should be the same size as the whole rest of the hand it’s on, especially if that hand is a foot. They like to climb trees because when they’re standing up everyone can see how short their arms are.
Lemur! His name’s Moe.
Lemur naranja.
Bamboo lemur (by Woodlouse)
Aye-aye skeleton and behavior.
Aye-ayes fill the same ecological niche as woodpeckers do, thanks to their loooong and skinny middle fingers that serve the same role as a woodpecker’s long tongue. In addition to their long, bug-picking fingers, they also have constantly-growing teeth. This led to early naturalists to classify them as “Rodentia”. They’re now considered relatives of the lemur, but that classification is still not certain; some species of aye-aye have rodent-like bone structures, and even though molecular genetics shows lemurs and aye-ayes having a relatively recent common ancestor, its classification is still challenged.
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 1872.
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Ring-tailed Lemur eating an orange by Ben Hopper
Ring tailed lemur by floridapfe on Flickr.
