lemurs

• But researchers wondered how these lemurs were able to move around on their slim fingers. —  The Chronicle
• We saw ugly baboons and screeching lemurs which is always exiting. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
• Already lemurs are attracting growing numbers of tourists to Madagascar, as evidenced by the full camping grounds at the lodge where our group stayed in the Ankarafantsika Park, where sifakas all but drop in on the breakfast table. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
• Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), like other lemurs, are primates that are only found on the island of Madagascar and have long been considered to be generally more primitive than monkeys and apes. —  Impact Lab
• The island is home to such evolutionary oddities as lemurs, a group of primates endemic to the island; brilliantly colored lizards including geckos and chameleons; tenrecs, spiny hedgehog-like creatures; and the fossa, a carnivorous animal that looks like a cross between a puma and a dog but is closely related to the mongoose. —  Mongabay.com News

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