"dwarf" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For years researchers wondered if the hairy-eared dwarf lemur still existed; they had never seen one alive.
- The hairy-eared dwarf lemur (Allocebus trichotis) reportedly has a very long tongue, allowing it to feed on nectar.
- The head and body of the greater dwarf lemur can range from 167 to 264 millimeters in length, and 164 to 600 grams.
- The greater dwarf lemur is an arboreal quadruped, it moves along the horizontal branches with a regular gait pattern involving all four limbs.
- The hairy-eared dwarf lemur (Allocebus trichotis) was only known from five museum specimens, most collected in the late 19th century and one in 1965.
- Some species, such as the lesser dwarf lemur, store fat at the hind legs and the base of the tail, and hibernate.
- The name of this dwarf lemur commemorates the English missionary and naturalist James Sibree (1836-1929).
- This was also the first confirmation of Sibree's dwarf lemur as a unique species.
- The dwarf lemurs are the lemurs of the genus Cheirogaleus.
- Like most nocturnal prosimians, dwarf lemurs are reported as living solitary or in pairs.
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