There are more than fifty different species of lemur in Madagascar, of all shapes, sizes and colors. About half of them are nocturnal. This is a crowned lemur — an average sized diurnal lemur. The name is an obvious reference to the reddish crown on the forehead. This individual is a female. Males have the exact opposite coloration (reddish body with a grey crown), a characteristic known as sexual dimorphism.
Whenever I see the word lemur, I think of the word femur. I don’t know why I do and I realize that this is strange, but I don’t know what else to say, other than this lady lemur is very cute.
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So I can’t think of this sexual dimorphism in any human species, can you?
I guess it would be like if all men were white with black hair, and all women were black with white hair. Or vise versa.
Love your comment Mom. Just enjoy the ringtails, like Shardae loves Tarsiers and I love frogs (btw love them all).
I do love me some Tarsiers!!
And Sean, that’s racist.
Whenever I see the word lemur, I think of the word femur. I don’t know why I do and I realize that this is strange, but I don’t know what else to say, other than this lady lemur is very cute.
Bo – “This guy looks cool and cute.”