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- ... that experiments have indicated that ruffed lemurs (pictured) can understand the outcome of simple arithmetic operations?
- ... that unlike most other lemurs, the collared brown lemurs do not demonstrate female dominance?
- ... that the gray mouse lemur is one of the smallest primates in the world, weighing only 60 grams (2.1 oz)?
- ... that between 2000 and 2008, 39 new species of lemur (ring-tailed lemur) were described in Madagascar, bringing the total number of recognized species and subspecies to 99?
- ... that the pied tamarin, an endangered primate of the Amazon basin, is being gradually displaced by the red-handed tamarin?
- ... ... that illegal logging in Madagascar has been an ongoing problem, which escalated after the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, threatening endangered species such as lemurs?
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- ... that both Margot Marsh's mouse lemur and Arnhold's mouse lemur are separated from their closest relatives by species barriers?
- ... that the gestation period of the ring-tailed lemur is approximately 146 days?
- ... that the endangered golden lion tamarin has a long, but not prehensile, tail?
- ... that until December 2008, the red lemur and the red-fronted lemur (pictured) were considered the same species?
- ... that the gray-handed night monkey is nocturnal and monogamous?
- ... that Corcovado National Park is the only national park in which all of Costa Rica's four native monkey species can be found?
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- ... that in addition to insects, the diet of the common brown lemur (pictured) includes soil and red clay?
- ...that the infant red-bellied lemur rides on both mother and father, but after age 33 days, only the father offers transport?
- ... that agile mangabeys are known to contract the T-cell leukemia virus, similar to the leukemia virus that infects humans?
- ... that the birth rates of the southern woolly lemur are affected by the degradation level of their habitat?
- ... that the extinct monkey lemurs, including Hadropithecus, were most closely related to modern indris and sifakas, as well as the extinct sloth lemurs?
- ...that the diademed sifaka is an athletic lemur whose small groups defend a rainforest territory of up to 125 acres by scent marking?
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- ... that although male Kashmir gray langurs are usually protective of infants, they sometimes engage in infanticide?
- ... that Geoffroy's spider monkey (pictured) has a prehensile tail that can support its entire body weight?
- ... that the monkey "Marcel" on the TV sitcom Friends was a white-headed capuchin?
- ... that the Guatemalan black howler and mantled howler monkeys are sympatric over parts of Mexico and Guatemala?
- ... that the sloth lemurs of the genus Mesopropithecus were once thought to be indriids due to the similarities between their skulls and those of living sifakas?
- ... that the discovery of Babakotia radofilai, an extinct species of sloth lemur, helped to resolve the relationship between the indriids, sloth lemurs, and monkey lemurs?
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