colugo

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History of Creation Haeckel saw various lemurs as the root stock from which various groups of placental mammals sprang, rodents arising from creatures like the aye-aye, bats from the colugo (known not to be a lemur today, but considered to belong to that group by Haeckel), and humans from large lemurs like the indri.

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  1. noun See flying lemur.

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  • History of Creation Haeckel saw various lemurs as the root stock from which various groups of placental mammals sprang, rodents arising from creatures like the aye-aye, bats from the colugo (known not to be a lemur today, but considered to belong to that group by Haeckel), and humans from large lemurs like the indri. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • Scientists had recognized just two species of these enigmatic mammals, the Sunda colugo and the Philippine colugo. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • A Malayan colugo glides between trees with a baby hanging on. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • However, the new findings show that the Sunda colugo, found only in Indochina and Sundaland, including the large islands of Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, actually represents at least three separate species. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • Some went back four to five million years, "making the colugo species as old as other modern species groups (or genera) such as the primates known as macaques and the leopard cats. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
 

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/kəˈlugoʊ/
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