tags: madagascar, leapin' lemurs, streaming video
This streaming video from the BBC show, Weird Nature: Marvelous Motion compares the movement of Sifaka lemurs to ballet, but it's also reminiscent of a martial arts movie. Remarkably, these animals can jump as far as 30 feet from tree to tree! And they make it look so effortless [1:49]
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In honor of Science Online, which begins on Thursday night, I will be writing about lemurs this week. Why lemurs?
Behold! The second installment of the Science Online Lemur Cognition series.
Amazing!
Thank you for sharing.
This is one of the reasons I love your blog.
The Beeb narrator puts that at 30 meters, though no leaps near that range seem to be shown in the video.
My daughter thought it was great - she's three and a half and has a toy lemur (called Lenny), so it was wonderful for her. Of course it now means she is leaping around the dining room after a big meal, so thats going to turn out well....
They're my new favorite animal, I think <3