Sentences with phrase «largest lemur»

The study also included genetic data from eight extant species, including the three largest lemur species still alive today.

We are definitely putting Taunte Elizabeth's birthday gift to good use this summer!During our first visit to the Zoo in May we learned that the Calgary Zoo would soon be home to Canada's largest lemur exhibit, opening summer 2017.

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So far, the larger versions of the Raspberry Pis have been turned into everything from a supercomputer to a lemur - feeding device for animal research.

Lemurs — small, bushy - tailed primates — populate a large habitat at the center of the exhibit.

Using DNA extracted from the remains of extinct giant lemurs like this sloth lemur (genus Palaeopropithecus), researchers aim to better understand why Madagascar's largest lemurs were wiped out, and what makes some lemur species more vulnerable to hunting and habitat loss today.

Elise Huchard, Christina Albrecht, Susanne Schliehe - Diecks, Alice Baniel, Christian Roos, Peter M. Kappeler, and Markus Brameier, «Large - scale MHC class II genotyping using next generation sequencing of a wild lemur population», Immunogenetics, vol.

They have a large viewing window looking directly into the lemur enclosure where you can watch this fascinating troop play!

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.