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Occasionally the lemur's curiosity would get the better of him and he'd make a dash at climbing up inside the leg of Martin's cargo shorts.
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His eyes were bright and bulging, like a lemur's, like a hungry prosimian awakened from its diurnal slumber.
Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003
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It's a lemur -- the lemur's from Madagascar, an island off the coast of Africa.
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And the lemur's an animal that's very prehistoric, a prosimian.
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He picked up the lemur's sleeping cushion, then tossed it to a guard.
The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996
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The Gerp's mouse lemur's closest physical mouse lemur neighbor is the Goodman's mouse lemur, which lives about 30 miles 50 km away.
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But the lowland rain forests encompassing this new lemur's small range aren't
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The newly found mouse lemur's closest neighbor, the Jolly's mouse lemur, lives in a patch of forest just 30 miles away, but at a different altitude.
NYT > Home Page By RACHEL NUWER 2012
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The mouse lemur's genetics show a sharp divergence from its nearest relatives.
NYT > Home Page By RACHEL NUWER 2012
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A female lemur's scent normally conveys not only her fertility status, but also information about identity, her relatedness to others and her genetic homozygosity, an indicator of in-breeding.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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