A News Story/Video For Our Resident Lemur Lover

colchar · Post by **colchar** » August 29th, 2012, 3:09 pm

Lavabe · Post by **Lavabe** » August 29th, 2012, 3:22 pm

NEVER heard of ringtailed lemurs being called LONG-TAILED LEMURS.

Lavabe · Post by **Lavabe** » August 29th, 2012, 3:42 pm

Lavabe wrote:NEVER heard of ringtailed lemurs being called LONG-TAILED LEMURS.

Will check on FB with my Canadian colleagues as to whether the term changes once one crosses the border.

colchar · Post by **colchar** » August 29th, 2012, 7:28 pm

Could perhaps be a colloquial term used up here. Either that or the reporter hadn't a clue what they were talking about.

Lavabe · Post by **Lavabe** » August 29th, 2012, 8:06 pm

colchar wrote:Could perhaps be a colloquial term used up here. Either that or the reporter hadn't a clue what they were talking about.

It's the latter. My Canadian primatologist friends are bewildered and baffled by the story.