What Is It With the Lemurs?
Many of you have written to me asking, "What's up with the lemurs, man?" The answer is actually pretty simple.
- Lemurs have big googly eyes - Come on. Is that cute or what?
- They're among the most primitive primates - I can relate to that.
- They like to scent mark their territory - Some even smear their poo on tree trunks. Who doesn't dream of doing that? I know I do. I just like to blame it on the cat.
- One species of lemur, the aye-aye lemur, has an extended middle finger - Plus its hair looks like it's been plugged into an electical outlet for three days. A major middle finger and a wild 'do. Punk ain't dead. It's digging bugs out of a tree in Madagascar.
- The red-bellied lemur is sexually dichromatic - I have no idea what this means, but it sounds pretty kinky to me.
- Some species of lemurs have blue eyes - Hey! Me too!
- The lesser bushbaby species can leap fifteen feet in the air - Not bad for a guinea pig sized critter.
- The name is just darn fun to say - Try it with me. Lemur. Leeeemmmmuurrrr. Lemur! LEMUR!!
Tapirs, on the other hand...
The tapir thing was actually an accident. I saw a picture of one and thought it was cute. I also thought is was cat sized. Turns out they're more hippopotamus sized. Try housebreaking one of those...
LM
posted by Lance Manion at 10:16 AM
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Wow, I wish I had a lemur farm. I'd train them, spraypaint them, and release them into metrolitan centers.
They'd be like roving skittles, except with teeth.
If you watched MST3K ever, Crow the Robot made up a song about some random lemur in a movie they were watching. It went something like this:
Joey the Lemur,
He runs everywhere,
Joey the Lemur.
Joey the Lemur,
He goes to the bathroom everywhere,
Joey the Lemur
There was more but I always start giggling after the 2nd verse, so it's been lost to history.
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