Nearly all the different members of the Lemur family live in Madagascar and the surrounding islands.
Some very curious animals are found in the Lemur family.
The lemur is nocturnal in its habits and noiseless in its movements.
The preceding sentence probably refers to the flying lemur (note 44, ante.
This lemur has, like the flying squirrel, a volucral membrane, which not only covers all its limbs but reaches to its tail; and thus the creature glides from tree to tree.
The showman had always called the lemur Tommy, so we supposed that was an indication of its sex, and retained the name to which it had been accustomed.
I feared to place this little lemur at once with Tommy, lest they might not agree, so, for the night, the new pet was placed in a large basket, and covered with a railway rug.
The lemur was in no way frightened by the crowd; he made friends with everybody, and hopped about from one group to another quite at his ease.
One day I heard that a young specimen of a Ruffed Lemur had been seen in a cage at the top of a cart full of birds and curious animals, a sort of small travelling menagerie which was stopping for a few days at a town five miles off.
As is clear, we have here simply observations, descriptions of that which the Semang has seen when watching the lemur in the forest.
Every monkey and lemur exhibits the characteristic arrangement of tarsal bones, possesses a short flexor and short extensor muscle, and a peronaeus longus.
The Ruffed or Variable Lemur derives its name from the remarkable variability of its external markings: so much is this the case, indeed, that not a few of them have been described as distinct species.
Grandidier in their great work on the Natural History {72}of Madagascar, as so many varieties of one species, Lemur mongoz.
Well, that of the lemur is made in very much the same way, except that the pupil closes up from above and below instead of from the sides, so that the slit runs across the eyeball, and not up and down.
The ruffed lemur is the largest of these curious animals, being about as big as a good-sized cat.
The body is clothed with long fur, and when a mother lemur carries her little one about on her back it burrows down so deep into her thick coat that one can scarcely see it at all.
But, oddly enough, this lemur is seldom seen in the trees.
The slender loris may be described as a lemur without a tail, It is found in the forests of Southern India and Ceylon.
Every Lemur which has yet been examined, in fact, has its cerebellum partially visible from above, and its posterior lobe, with the contained posterior cornu and hippocampus minor, more or less rudimentary.
Every Monkey and Lemur exhibits the characteristic arrangement of tarsal bones, possesses a short flexor and short extensor muscle, and a peronaeus longus.
Longitudinal and vertical sections of the skulls of a Beaver (Castor Canadensis), a Lemur (L.
The male of the Lemur macaco is generally coal-black, whilst the female is brown.
Every Lemur which has yet been examined, in fact, has its cerebellum partially visible from above; and its posterior lobe, with the contained posterior cornu and hippocampus minor, more or less rudimentary.
Pollen and van Dam, on the colours of Lemur macaco.
The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus.
A flying lemur from the Pelews contemplated swooping upon the head of a huge tigress which glared with glassy eyes across the place at the snarling muzzle of a polar bear.
The flying lemur continued apparently to contemplate the idea of swooping upon the head of the tigress where she crouched upon her near-by pedestal.
Blattella germanica, France (Brumpt and Urbain, 1938): See comment underLemur coronatus.
Further experiments with insect-food on the African lemur Perodicticus potto Lesson.
Blattella germanica, France (Brumpt and Urbain, 1938): See comments under Lemur coronatus and Callithrix chrysoleucos.
This writer also stated that a lemur was kept on board ship to destroy cockroaches.
She hoped, at least, to be near him in the formalities of grief, and proposed that they should bury the lemur together, suggesting a spot among birch-trees and heather where some rabbits of her own were interred.
She recognized that, in spite of her most genuine grief, the burial of the lemur had held out to her some of the satisfactory possibilities of a solemn game.
In Samar the flying monkey or lemur (the kaguang of the Bisayans--galeopithecus) is not rare.
In Sumatra Wallace saw, in the twilight, a lemur run up the trunk of a tree, and then glide obliquely through the air to another trunk, by which he nearly reached the ground.
Every Monkey and Lemur exhibits the characteristic arrangement of tarsal bones, possesses a short flexor and short extensor muscle, and a 'peronaeus longus'.
Skull of a fossil lemur (Adapis parisiensis,), from the Miocene at Quercy.
The male of the Lemur macaco is coal-black, whilst the female is reddish-yellow, but highly variable in colour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lemur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ape; gorilla; man; primate
