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I thought Lavabe might appreciate this:


http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article ... oronto-zoo

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

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.

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

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.