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Afarensis is a 3.5-2.8 million year old hominin from the Kada Hadar member of the Hadar formation in the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. He is approximately 41 inches tall, weighs approximately 60 pounds and has a cranial capacity of a whopping 410 cc (approximately). Afarensis is currently considered to be transitional between apes and humans and displays some traits of both. Since he spends a lot of time on the couch watching monster movies, some observers question whether he is an obligate biped (although no one has observed him climbing a tree). He also has a blog called Transitions:The Evolution of Life His previous blog can be found here.
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Posted on: July 28, 2008 8:22 PM, by afarensis, FCD
Zooillogix has a post up about some cute baby lemurs. At least this time...they didn't...trick...me...into...
Aw, rats, they got me again! Tricky Lemurs!
Update One: I just received an email, which I am reproducing below:
Har, Har, Har, this is you afarensis
Signed,
Lemurs
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It's alright Afarensis. Even though the picture is signed 'Lemurs' he's not, he's a Lemurian.
Posted by: terryt | July 28, 2008 11:30 PM
heh. LEMURS STRIKE AGAIN!
http://thedragonstales.blogspot.com/2008/07/paleo-lemur-reconstructed.html
Hadropithecus. Paleo Lemurs that is...
;)
Posted by: Will Baird | July 29, 2008 12:31 AM
If that's a lemur, Morgoth must have had it for an awfully long time ...
Posted by: llewelly | July 29, 2008 12:54 AM
Will - Yup, the research is in PNAS.
Posted by: afarensis, FCD | July 29, 2008 8:05 AM
So blog about it and make this unofficial lemur week.
Posted by: Will Baird | July 29, 2008 11:53 AM
On "Lemur Kingdom" on the Animal Planet (on cable), I've seen ring-tailed lemurs eating various fruits, leaves, grasses, and cactus, the latter item being downright prickly. I should think it would pit their teeth, which is what part of what the piece at "thedragonstales" was talking about for the paleo lemur. A significant part of the year is under drought conditions, too, when most of the juicier foods are unavailable, and everything is pretty gritty, dusty, dry. A lot of their fur falls out and all but the head honcho (honcha - since females are dominant?) look pretty scruffy, until the rains come.
Posted by: DianaGainer | July 29, 2008 4:11 PM