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animalids · 3 years
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Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis)
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primatology-daily · 4 years
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What’s up with lemurs?
I bet you woke up with the same question plaguing your mind. Are they monkeys? Are they some sort of skunk dogs? Well, they’re both, kind of! 
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They belong to a different brand of primates— The Strepsirrhines. A sub-order named for their characteristic “wet nose.” Lemurs, lorises, galagos, and pottos are all Strepsirrhine primates, which is why they look and act differently than most of the name-brand monkeys and apes we know and love. Everything else, (monkeys apes) are Haplorrhines, but we’ll learn more about them later. 
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Strepsirhines are different because they rely more on scent than Haplorhines. Scent glands and urine can be used to mark territory, detect pheromones, and even have stink fights (if you’re a lemur). Pictured below: A Potto! (Pottos and Slow Lorises are pretty cool because they secrete a poison from their sexual glands, which they lick before biting a predator, making them the only venomous primate! Wowza.)
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There are two Super Families in Suborder Strepsirrhini: Lemuroidea and Lorisoidea... the lemurs and lorises, obviously! These classifications are pretty easy to remember, and a helpful taxonomic hint is that endings in -ea are superfamilies, and endings in -ae are families, (ex: Lemuroidea lemuridae) 
One unique physical characteristic besides a relatively smaller brain:body size ratio, is the tooth-comb. The lower-front teeth of all Streps. form a comb shape that helps them with grooming. 
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Streps. and Haps. evolved from the same mammalian ancestor, and the divide between them is the first big split in the Order Primates. Lemurs are especially interesting because they evolved on Madagascar and they are only found in Madagascar. When a species only exists in a certain place we say it is endemic, so a lemur is endemic to Madagascar. 
Unfortunately, the logging industry has greatly deteriorated the forests of Madagascar, meaning all lemurs are at risk of extinction. But more on this issue, and lemurs, in another post! 
(photos from Google) 
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synapsid-taxonomy · 5 years
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Not that it matters much, but do you treat lorises & galagos as one family or two?
I personally prefer two, mostly so that Lorisoidea (the loris+galago node) doesn’t become redundant.
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chakie-violet · 4 years
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🦄 Crystal + Loris 🟣 New class: Lorisoidea Trigonal Trapezohedral ✨Magical Creatures Marathon starts now!!✨ Ну чтож. На этой неделе целых два марафона для меня уже начаты. Пора приступать. Вообще, интересная задумка с рамдомным выбором животного! Для первого задания с кристаллами мне достался лемур Лори 🐒 Маленькие милые существа 🤍 Вот, что получилось 😅 #loris #slowloris #animal #magicalcreatures #alexandradikaia_mcc2020 #magic #creature #strangecreature #fantasyart #miracle #crystals #crystalsart #illustration #watercolor #artdraw #drawwithme #violet #decorativearts #fantasticbeasts #fantasticworld (at Magic Forest) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8GUak5Ikl_/?igshid=p01cgcgawvj3
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aamorfo · 11 years
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Literally the cutest monkeys in the face of the planet. It's terrible that they're endangered thanks to the illegal pet trade, 'cause they're just too  cute. 
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animalids · 7 years
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Golden angwantibo (Arctocebus aureus)
The golden angwantibo is a small, nocturnal primate. It has no tail, and, instead, its extremely powerful grip, made possible by a specialised arrangement of blood vessels in the wrists and ankles, aids it in moving securely through the trees. In common with other Loridae, the golden angwantibo has nails on all digits except for the second digit of each foot, which possesses a ‘toilet claw’, used in grooming. Interestingly, the index finger is reduced to a mere stub.
Classification Animalia - Chordata - Mammalia - Eutheria - Boreoeutheria - Euarchontoglires - Primatomorpha - Primates - Strepsirrhini - Lemuriformes - Lorisoidea - Lorisidae - Perodicticinae - Arctocebus - A. aureus
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