lemur

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The largest lemur, the indri, has humanlike hands and feet that enable it to scamper up the dense tree branches in Madagascar's few remaining intact forests.

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  1. noun Any of several small arboreal, mostly nocturnal primates chiefly of the family Lemuridae of Madagascar and adjacent islands, having large eyes, a long slim muzzle, and a long tail.

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  • Another of my pets was a lemur, a pretty and delightful one. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • This was a lemur, and he was being handed from one person to another, particularly by ladies and children, each one being anxious to have it in their arms to cuddle and kiss. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • This lemur is King Julien's long suffering sergeant-at-arms.
  • Necropsy findings indicated the lemur was suffering from kidney cancer.
  • But the most obviously adaptive evolutionary gifts are probably borne by the lemur, the family of small primates found only on Madagascar. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
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  1. New Latin Lemur, genus name, back-formation from Latin Lemurēs, lemures (from their ghostly appearance and their nocturnal habits).
 

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