Lemur

Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world.

"Go feed your monkey or whatever it is." "It's a lemur!"

When I was little, people would tease me and call me a "lemur".

Archaeoindris fontoynontii was a gorilla-sized lemur.

"Lemurs are naturally very social," said Mukobi. "Wild lemurs live in big family groups, and different species do really well together. Plus, the new lemur habitat is quite large, so each family group can have their own space when they choose to."

Tucker-Brown explained how lemurs—like much of the “stranded” flora and fauna of Madagascar—are effectively living fossils. Belonging to a primate group called prosimians, lemurs were evolutionarily superseded by monkeys on mainland Africa 35mn years ago and driven to near-extinction.