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To: Tokra
Flying lemurs?


68 posted on 09/22/2006 9:34:25 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
The collugo, yes. A superficially bat-like primate. It can't really fly, but it seems to be getting close in its gliding ability.

It's a primate, more related to monkeys than to the bats it resembles. This is more starkly obvious when you see a young one, as in this baby clinging to the side of its mama in mid-glide.

The picture starkly demonstrates another bit of evolutionary lore, that humans look like the babies of other primates. That is, we exhibit neoteny within our group.

69 posted on 09/22/2006 9:58:45 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Help, help! I'm being flashed by a moonbat!

Cheers!

124 posted on 09/22/2006 6:47:43 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
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