All in the Family: Learning Lemur Classifications
The Lemur Family Tree. Lemurs belong to the Primate order, along with monkeys, apes, and humans. Within that order, they share a suborder called Strepsirrhini (meaning “curled nose”) with relatives like lorises and bush babies.
08-21 All in the Family: Learning Lemur Classifications
While lemur species are still being categorized, renamed, and even discovered, lemurs are generally categorized into five families, which are divided based on shared characteristics and genetic similarities. The Lemur Family Tree. Lemurs belong to the Primate order, along with monkeys, apes, and humans.
Fossils Rewrite the Story of Lemur Origins - Duke Lemur Center
In the new study, Seiffert, Gunnell and colleagues propose that the ancestors of aye-ayes split from the rest of the lemur family tree roughly 40 million years ago, while still on the African continent, and the resulting two lineages didn’t make their separate ways to …
01-21 What is a Lemur? - Duke Lemur Center
The closest relatives of the primate family are likely tree shrews, rodents, bats, and colugos (which are not primates despite their common name of “flying lemur”). We can determine that these early primates are distinct from their mammalian ancestors by examining their unique primate features.
Ring-tailed Lemur - Duke Lemur Center
Lemur catta. Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) are the most intensely studied of all the lemurs. They’re also the most easily recognizable species of lemur, and the most common primates in human care.
Research Overview - Duke Lemur Center
Because lemurs are part of our family: As primates, lemurs are our most distant relatives within our own family tree. Studying lemurs within a comparative context across primates allows us to understand ourselves, and the traits and processes that make us both primate and human.
Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur - Duke Lemur Center
The species of dwarf lemur found at the DLC, Cheirogaleus medius, is native to the dry deciduous forests of western and southern Madagascar. These small lemurs can live in primary forests, established secondary forests as well as the gallery forest of the southern spiny desert.
New IUCN Conservation Assessments: Coquerel’s ... - Duke Lemur …
Pie charts showing the proportion of lemur species within each family that now fall into IUCN categories of endangerment, including critically endangered (red), endangered (orange), vulnerable (yellow), least concern (green), and data deficient (black).
Aye-aye - Duke Lemur Center
Aye-ayes sleep in elaborate tree nests during the day, with different animals using the same nest on different days. Wild aye-ayes spend most of their lives alone. The only social interactions occur during courtship and when an infant is dependent on its mother.
12-20 Slow Loris - Duke Lemur Center
While the slow loris now lives across a few oceans and continents from its relative, the lemur, these early primates share a branch of the primate family tree with not only its Madagascar cousins but also the bush baby, found on Mainland Africa.