Lemurs Trivia Quiz

Answer: Madagascar

Lemurs are endemic to Madagascar. The ancestral lemur is thought to have 'rafted' over from Africa on a mass of floating vegetation.

Answer: Coquerel's Sifaka

Zoboo was played by Jovian, a sifaka from the Duke University Primate Center in North Carolina. The show was aimed at children and taught them about the natural world.

Answer: Viverridae

The Viverrids include civets and the fossa, possibly the coolest predator ever. Check out the fossa quiz, 53, by 'fossa'. The others are three of the five lemurid families.

Answer: all of these

Experiments by Carl Erickson show the aye-aye can find hollows in the wood, even if they've been filled in with wood of the same density. However the aye-aye is more likely to excavate hollow chambers, and most likely to excavate prey-containing hollows.

Answer: Female

Sometimes the female-dominance is obvious, but often it is subtle. After much observation and statistical analysis, female dominance emerges in grooming, social displacement, and choice of best feeding site.

Answer: squirrel

The original Latin name for the aye-aye was Sciurus madagascariensis (reclassified as Daubentonia madagascariensis). The aye-aye has rodent-like continuously growing incisors, among other peculiar traits.

Answer: Indri

Each member of an indri group has a different role in the group song, which lasts up to five minutes and is sung perhaps once a day, on average. Samples of their songs can be found easily on the internet.

Answer: true

There were dozens of species, the largest about the size of a large male gorilla.

Answer: Holes in teeth

An analysis of holes in Daubentonia Robusta teeth shows the holes were drilled by humans shortly after the animal's death. The fact that only giant species became extinct supports the theory that human activities contributed to giant lemur extinctions.

Answer: Aye aye

Am I obsessed with aye-ayes? Yes.

Answer: Tarsiformes

The other is Lorsiformes. Didelphimorphids are oppossums, the other two groups are monkeys.

Answer: Dwarf lemurs

Tarsiers are a seperate group of prosimians. Flying lemurs are a group so distinct they have their own Order within Mammals, though they are thought to be bats' ancestors. I want a poison-dart lemur.

Answer: Cheirogalidae

Actually some debate exists about the placement of Daubentonidae. But the ancestral lemur supposedly was small and mouse-like, like the dwarf lemurs and mouse lemurs.

Answer: Indri

Answer: John Cleese

It was called "Born to be Wild: Operation Lemur" and dates from 2001.

Answer: you

Lemurs and other prosimians (including the potto) are a different sub-order from apes, monkeys, and people.

Answer: Strepsirhini

Answer: Gibbon

Gibbons are apes, much larger and stronger than these others.

Answer: Douglas Adams

Madagascar was only one of Adams' destinations for the book 'Last Chance to See' (highly recommended). Asimov wrote so much, indubitably he wrote *something* about lemurs, but I doubt he ever went to Madagascar.

Answer: 90%

A meeting of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission was held in Madagascar that year, and came up with a figure of 91%. The reason, as usual, is loss of habitat.

Answer: Ring-tailed lemurs

Ring-tailed lemurs have adapted best to living in captivity.

Answer: burrow underground

Answer: bush baby

Answer: fossa

Some Malagasy people, and some foreigners, have also been reported to eat lemurs.

Answer: Pat Wright

The others are most famous for studying: Orang utans - {Galdikas;} gorillas - {Fossey;} chimpanzees - Goodall