Nocturnal primates

Usage examples of lemurs.

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.

These were descended from the same ancestors as the lemurs, but they had bigger brains, and were aggressive competitors for the same habitat.

Where the lemurs had been content to hang around in trees having a good time, the monkeys were ambitious, and interested in all sorts of things, especially twigs, with which they found they could do all kinds of things that they couldn't do by themselves - digging for things, probing things, hitting things.

He had explained to me in detail the history of the lemurs and I said that I thought there was an irony to it.

Madagascar had been a monkey-free refuge for the lemurs off the coast of mainland Africa, and now Nosy Mangabe had to be a monkey-free refuge off the coast of mainland Madagascar.

I took my Filofax outside and flipped through it while the sun streamed through the trees behind me from which some ruffed lemurs were calling to each other.

Gorillas, lemurs, dolphins I will watch entranced for hours, hypnotised as much as anything else by their eyes.

This is why you find on, for instance, Madagascar, species like the lemurs that were overwhelmed aeons ago on the mainland.

Then one of the bigeared, tufty-furred dune lemurs is plucked from the scattering bunch, and the carnal face of the thing reveals itself as the lemur is macerated in midair.

Together, the tree-shrews and the lemurs are placed in the Suborder Prosimii (proh-sim'ee-eye.

He tried to shoot one of those cute little lemurs and nearly took off the tip of my nose.