Sentence examples for mouse lemurs scurry from inspiring English sources

When moving through the trees, giant mouse lemurs scurry rapidly like mouse lemurs, unlike dwarf lemurs, which use more deliberate movement.

All mouse lemurs are highly active at night, often scurrying like mice and leaping over 3 m, using the tail as a balancing organ.

Madagascar is the world's only home to about 40 species of lemurs, including two previously known species of mouse lemurs.

(Mouse lemurs live only in Madagascar and the Comoros Islands).

Scientists working in Madagascar have discovered three previously unknown species of mouse lemurs, the world's smallest primate.

Mouse lemurs are prosimian primates, roughly half the genetic distance between mice and humans.

Exceptions are mouse lemurs (Microcebus), gentle lemurs (Hapalemur), and ruffed lemurs (Varecia), which bear more helpless (altricial) infants and carry their young in their mouth.

"Most people know the ring-tailed lemur, and perhaps the mouse lemurs or the ruffed lemurs, but the diversity of lemurs on Madagascar is so much greater, and a fascinating study on evolution and adaptation," said Lynne Venart, the Communications Director of the Lemur Conservation Network.

Mouse lemurs, from Madagascar, snooze for more than fifteen hours a day, but only an hour of this is REM sleep.

During our stay we captured 5 mouse lemurs and 3 dwarf lemurs.

Mouse lemurs are the smallest primates in the world.