Portal:Primates/Did you know/3
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- ... that in addition to insects, the diet of the common brown lemur (pictured) includes soil and red clay?
- ...that the infant red-bellied lemur rides on both mother and father, but after age 33 days, only the father offers transport?
- ... that agile mangabeys are known to contract the T-cell leukemia virus, similar to the leukemia virus that infects humans?
- ... that the birth rates of the southern woolly lemur are affected by the degradation level of their habitat?
- ... that the extinct monkey lemurs, including Hadropithecus, were most closely related to modern indris and sifakas, as well as the extinct sloth lemurs?
- ...that the diademed sifaka is an athletic lemur whose small groups defend a rainforest territory of up to 125 acres by scent marking?
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