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- noun Plural form of
lemur .
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Crowned sifaka lemurs are found only in Madagascar, and their survival is threatened by deforestation.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Crowned sifaka lemurs are found only in Madagascar, and their survival is threatened by deforestation.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Crowned sifaka lemurs are found only in Madagascar, and their survival is threatened by deforestation.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Crowned sifaka lemurs are found only in Madagascar, and their survival is threatened by deforestation.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
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Today there are well over 200 living species, which can be loosely characterized as lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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The most specialized of the lemurs is the tarsier (tahr'see-ur; so called because the bones of its tarsus, or ankle, are much elongated).
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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The lemurs are the lower kinds of the order, and differ much from the apes.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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There are many kinds of them, however; and, although classed in a group called lemurs, they differ exceedingly from one another, some of them having the appearance of foxes, others more resembling squirrels, and still others like flying squirrels -- being possessed of a similar wing-like appendage, and capable, like them, of extended flight.
Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Mayne Reid 1850
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Dancing Sifaka lemurs caught on camera by British wildlife photographers in
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Every morning groups of sifaka lemurs troop across clearings in the Madagascan forest in the fastest way possible to avoid predators and reach their foraging grounds deep in the jungle
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
madmouth commented on the word lemurs
there were about 5 cages of ringed lemurs variously dispersed through Hong Kong's zoological park. perhaps they were on sale this summer.
September 12, 2009
sionnach commented on the word lemurs
And to think that c_b once accused lemurs of not being a Christmas word, poor little foxy-faced critters. Though the HK zoo was obviously lemurshaving, I hope there was no lemur-shaving going on.
September 12, 2009
madmouth commented on the word lemurs
frankly, they should've shaved some for the sake of visual interest.
what's a Christmas word?
September 12, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word lemurs
Sionnach is referring to the conversation on this list.
September 12, 2009
sionnach commented on the word lemurs
And what a fine conversation it is. One of my all time favorites aqui on Wordie, I have to say. It has all the free-floating randomness, disgustingness, mild inter-wordizen abuse, and phony umbrage-taking that we have come to expect from your typical superior wordie conversation.
September 12, 2009
reesetee commented on the word lemurs
It is a fine specimen, comments re: my being a walking bag of bodily fluids notwithstanding. ;-)
September 14, 2009
sionnach commented on the word lemurs
aha! So you don't deny it then, r_t?
*saunters off, whistling, with best innocent foxy-faced look*
September 14, 2009
reesetee commented on the word lemurs
*too tired to rise to fox's bait*
Sure, sure. What you said.
#sigh#
September 15, 2009