WEIRD FACTS ABOUT
LEMUR

curly underline

LEMUR

In the wild, lemurs live only on Madagascar and the nearby Comoro Islands.

There are over 30 species ranging in size from the one ounce pygmy mouse lemur to the 15lb Indri lemur.

They have opposable thumbs and fingers and for grooming mainly use the second toe of their hind legs.

Lemurs form a matriarchal society with a dominant female in charge of each group.

To resolve disputes, lemurs engage in 'stink fights' in which they rub their tails on sweat glands on their forearms and under their arms, then wave their tails around to waft the smell about, causing the enemy to run away.

Lemurs take their name from the Latin 'Lemures' which means ghosts, because of their mysterious and largely nocturnal lifestyles.


| Share |

Related links:

CONTRACEPTION
Research at Duke University, California, in 2010 showed that male lemurs do not like the... MORE

You may also be interested in:

UNDERGARMENTS
In 2012, Zimbabwe became the third country in Africa to ban the same of secondhand... MORE

TOWN CRIER
The Ancient and Honourable Guild of Town Criers is not as ancient as its title... MORE

CALENDAR
According to the International Standard Organisation's ISO 8601, week 1 of any year is the... MORE

St APOLLONIA
St Apollonia is the patron saint of dentists and toothache sufferers. Her martyrdom... MORE

LEADERSHIP
Honcho is a Japanese word meaning 'leader', so the phrase 'head honcho' is tautological.... MORE

PARKER
Writer and wit Dorothy Parker had a pet dog called Cliché and a pet parrot... MORE

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
'Foot-and-Mouth Disease' is an anagram of 'Moo of death is sad tune' and 'Doomed site:... MORE

NUDISTS
Conference was held at Whispering Pines resort in North Carolina, USA in 1996. It was... MORE

COMMONWEALTH
The 53 member nations of the Commonwealth include 30 per cent of the world's population.... MORE

ROBIN HOOD
According to a manuscript discovered in the library of Eton College in 2009, Robin Hood... MORE

EASTWOOD
Clint Eastwood's first film role was as a laboratory assistant in the 1955 horror film... MORE

QUANTUM MECHANICS
Max Born, co-winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Physics, and the man who coined... MORE

COCKROACH
A cockroach can live for nine days without its head.... MORE

TOPLESSNESS
About two dozen women marched topless through the town of Portland, Maine in 2010 to... MORE

TRICOLOUR
A new law was rapidly introduced in France in July 2010 after the publication of... MORE