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Flying Lemurs Wearing High Tech Backpacks
Posted by Benny Bleiman on February 6, 2008
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Scientists in Malaysia have strapped high-tech backpacks onto flying lemurs, humans’ closest cousins, to help understand the aerodynamics of how these nifty little creatures glide through the air. The flying lemurs aren’t actually lemurs, so from now on we’re going to refer to them by their mother’s maiden name, colugos. The scientists also didn’t “strap”…