Arboreal beast of Madagascar

Usage examples of lemur.

Cuvier places them after the Bats, but they seem properly to link the Lemurs and the frugivorous Bats.

Now look at the Galeopithecus or flying lemur, which formerly was falsely ranked amongst bats.

First he slew a snowshoe rabbit cleaving it in twain with a single blow and then he slew a spiny anteater and then he slew two rusty numbats and then whirling the great blade round and round his head he slew a wallaby and a lemur and a trio of ouakaris and a spider monkey and a common squid.

He had to go further back, past the scurrying lemur lives and the slimy and raw slug lives, feeling back millions of years to the eyeless, mouthless beginnings of the cell.

Most of our birds and reptiles, and our lemurs, rhinos, orang-utans, mandrills, lion-tailed macaques, giraffes, anteaters, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, zebras, Himalayan and sloth bears, Indian elephants and Nilgiri tahrs, among others, were in demand, but others, Elfie for example, were met with silence.

Wearing dark goggles to shield their sensitive eyes from the sun, the owls and lemurs led the rejuvenated warmlander arboreals in dive after dive upon the massed, confused ranks of the Plated Folk army.

Then, as if to dispel that lemur, my mind turned to other images of which the memory was a fresh receptacle, and I could not avoid seeing, clear before my eyes (the eyes of the soul, but almost as if it appeared before my fleshly eyes), the image of the girl, beautiful and terrible as an army arrayed for battle.

They included giant elephant birds, primitive primates called lemurs as big as gorillas, and pygmy hippos.

There is an animal called a flying lemur, which has developed such a membrane, but it is an insectivore and not a primate.

Field researchers have found two new species of lemur: one, called the golden bamboo lemur, has beautiful golden eyebrows, orange cheeks and a rich reddish-brown coat.

The last sunlight gleamed on the huge emerald eyes of the lemurs, who peered at these invaders of their realm with unblinking gazes.

I can't see any other way that the lemurs could be avoiding those spiders.

Two or three of the boldest men even imitated the lemurs, luring spiders and other predators into reach of the tentacle beasts.

The inevitable lemurs snored quietly nearby, but the continuing silence between herself and Ware began to feel very strained.

Its origins date back to a period in earth's history when Madagascar was still part of mainland Africa (which itself had been part of the gigantic supercontinent of Gondwanaland), at which time the ancestors of the Madagascan lemurs were the dominant primate in all the world.