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Subfossil lemur, the Glossary

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Prehistoric animals of Madagascar
Subfossil lemurs

Accelerator mass spectrometry

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is a form of mass spectrometry that accelerates ions to extraordinarily high kinetic energies before mass analysis.

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Adansonia

Adansonia is a genus made up of eight species of medium-to-large deciduous trees known as baobabs or adansonias.

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In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms, particularly when a change in the environment makes new resources available, alters biotic interactions or opens new environmental niches.

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Agonistic behaviour

Agonistic behaviour is any social behaviour related to fighting.

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Alfred Grandidier

Alfred Grandidier (20 December 1836 – 13 September 1921) was a French naturalist and explorer.

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Alison Jolly

Alison Jolly (May 9, 1937 – February 6, 2014) was a primatologist, known for her studies of lemur biology.

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Allopatric speciation

Allopatric speciation – also referred to as geographic speciation, vicariant speciation, or its earlier name the dumbbell model – is a mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations become geographically isolated from each other to an extent that prevents or interferes with gene flow.

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Ambohitantely Special Reserve

Ambohitantely Special Reserve is a wildlife reserve of Madagascar.

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Ampasambazimba

Ampasambazimba is a mountain peak and subfossil site in Madagascar, near Analavory, (Itasy) most known for being the site of the remains of the extinct giant sloth lemur Archaeoindris. Subfossil lemur and Ampasambazimba are subfossil lemurs.

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Animal tooth development

Tooth development or odontogenesis is the process in which teeth develop and grow into the mouth.

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Ankarafantsika National Park

Ankarafantsika National Park is a national park near Andranofasika in the Boeny Region of Madagascar.

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Ankarana Special Reserve

Ankarana Special Reserve is a protected area in northern Madagascar created in 1956.

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Arboreal locomotion

Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees.

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Archaeoindris

Archaeoindris fontoynontii is an extinct giant lemur and the largest primate known to have evolved on Madagascar, comparable in size to a male gorilla. Subfossil lemur and Archaeoindris are Prehistoric animals of Madagascar and subfossil lemurs.

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Archaeolemur

Archaeolemur is an extinct genus of subfossil lemurs known from the Holocene epoch of Madagascar. Subfossil lemur and Archaeolemur are subfossil lemurs.

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Axial skeleton

The axial skeleton is the part of the skeleton that consists of the bones of the head and trunk of a vertebrate.

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Aye-aye

The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger that they can use to catch grubs and larvae out of tree trunks.

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Étienne de Flacourt

Étienne de Flacourt (1607–1660) was a French governor of Madagascar, born in Orléans in 1607.

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Babakotia

Babakotia is an extinct genus of medium-sized lemur, or strepsirrhine primate, from Madagascar that contains a single species, Babakotia radofilai. Subfossil lemur and Babakotia are subfossil lemurs.

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Baboon

Baboons are primates comprising the genus Papio, one of the 23 genera of Old World monkeys, in the family Cercopithecidae.

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Baculum

The baculum (bacula), also known as the penis bone, penile bone, os penis, os genitale, or os priapi, is a bone in the penis of many placental mammals.

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Bamboo lemur

The bamboo lemurs or gentle lemurs are the lemurs in genus Hapalemur.

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Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of energy expenditure per unit time by endothermic animals at rest.

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Batoidea

Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays.

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Before Present

Before Present (BP) or "years before present (YBP)" is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events occurred relative to the origin of practical radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.

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Belo sur Mer

Belo sur Mer is a rural municipality in Madagascar.

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Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve

The Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve is a nature reserve in Madagascar northeast of Betioky Sud.

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Biogeochemistry

Biogeochemistry is the scientific discipline that involves the study of the chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes and reactions that govern the composition of the natural environment (including the biosphere, the cryosphere, the hydrosphere, the pedosphere, the atmosphere, and the lithosphere).

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Black-and-white ruffed lemur

The black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) is an endangered species of ruffed lemur, one of two which are endemic to the island of Madagascar.

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Bone

A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals.

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Bushmeat

Bushmeat is meat from wildlife species that are hunted for human consumption.

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C3 carbon fixation

carbon fixation is the most common of three metabolic pathways for carbon fixation in photosynthesis, the other two being c4 and CAM.

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C4 carbon fixation

carbon fixation or the Hatch–Slack pathway is one of three known photosynthetic processes of carbon fixation in plants.

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Canine tooth

In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dogteeth, eye teeth, vampire teeth, or vampire fangs, are the relatively long, pointed teeth.

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Carbon-13

Carbon-13 (13C) is a natural, stable isotope of carbon with a nucleus containing six protons and seven neutrons.

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Carpal bones

The carpal bones are the eight small bones that make up the wrist (carpus) that connects the hand to the forearm.

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Cathemerality

Cathemerality, sometimes called "metaturnality", is an organismal activity pattern of irregular intervals during the day or night in which food is acquired, socializing with other organisms occurs, and any other activities necessary for livelihood are undertaken.

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Cedrelopsis

Cedrelopsis is a genus in the family Rutaceae found in Madagascar.

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Central Highlands (Madagascar)

The Central Highlands, Central High Plateau, or Hauts-Plateaux are a mountainous biogeographical region in central Madagascar.

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Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major

Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (15 August 1843, Glasgow – 25 March 1923, Munich) was a Scottish-born, Swiss physician, zoologist and vertebrate palaeontologist.

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Charles Lamberton

Charles Lamberton (23 April 18768 October 1960) was a French paleontologist who lived and studied on the island of Madagascar between 1911 and 1948 and specialized in the recently extinct subfossil lemurs.

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Cheirogaleidae

The Cheirogaleidae are the family of strepsirrhine primates containing the various dwarf and mouse lemurs.

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Cladistics

Cladistics is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry.

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Commiphora

The genus of the myrrhs, Commiphora, is the most species-rich genus of flowering plants in the frankincense and myrrh family, Burseraceae.

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Common Era

Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.

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Common name

In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.

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Coprophilous fungi

Coprophilous fungi (dung-loving fungi) are a type of saprobic fungi that grow on animal dung.

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Core sample

A core sample is a cylindrical section of (usually) a naturally-occurring substance.

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Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis, is a carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions that allows a plant to photosynthesize during the day, but only exchange gases at night.

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Cryptoprocta spelea

Cryptoprocta spelea, also known as the giant fossa, is an extinct species of carnivore from Madagascar in the family Eupleridae which is most closely related to the mongooses and includes all Malagasy carnivorans. Subfossil lemur and Cryptoprocta spelea are Prehistoric animals of Madagascar.

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Dactylopsila

Dactylopsila is a genus of marsupials in the family Petauridae, native to New Guinea, the Cape York peninsula of Australia, and other close islands.

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Daubentonia

Daubentonia is the sole genus of the Daubentoniidae, a family of lemuroid primate native to much of Madagascar.

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Delonix

Delonix is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

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Developmental biology

Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop.

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Diademed sifaka

The diademed sifaka (Propithecus diadema), or diademed simpona, is an endangered species of sifaka, one of the lemurs endemic to certain rainforests in eastern Madagascar.

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Diospyros

Diospyros is a genus of over 700 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs.

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Disturbance (ecology)

In ecology, a disturbance is a temporary change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem.

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Diurnality

Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.

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DNA replication

In molecular biology, DNA replication is the biological process of producing two identical replicas of DNA from one original DNA molecule.

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Dominance hierarchy

In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system.

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Duke University

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Dwarf lemur

The dwarf lemurs are the lemurs of the genus Cheirogaleus.

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Dysentery

Dysentery, historically known as the bloody flux, is a type of gastroenteritis that results in bloody diarrhea.

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Ecological niche

In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Electron microscope

An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination.

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Elephant bird

Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar. Subfossil lemur and Elephant bird are Prehistoric animals of Madagascar.

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Elwyn L. Simons

Elwyn LaVerne Simons (July 14, 1930 – March 6, 2016) was an American paleontologist, paleozoologist, and a wildlife conservationist for primates.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Ethnohistory

Ethnohistory is the study of cultures and indigenous peoples customs by examining historical records as well as other sources of information on their lives and history.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Feces

Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.

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Femur

The femur (femurs or femora), or thigh bone is the only bone in the thigh.

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Folivore

In zoology, a folivore is a herbivore that specializes in eating leaves.

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Fork-marked lemur

Fork-marked lemurs or fork-crowned lemurs are strepsirrhine primates; the four species comprise the genus Phaner.

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Fossa (animal)

The fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox; or) is a slender, long-tailed, cat-like mammal that is endemic to Madagascar.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Frugivore

A frugivore is an animal that thrives mostly on raw fruits or succulent fruit-like produce of plants such as roots, shoots, nuts and seeds.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).

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Fungus

A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

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Gabriel Ferrand

Gabriel Ferrand (22 January 1864 – 31 January 1935) was a French orientalist, writer and linguistic expert who worked in Madagascar.

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Gallery forest

A gallery forest is one formed as a corridor along rivers or wetlands, projecting into landscapes that are otherwise only sparsely treed such as savannas, grasslands, or deserts.

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Gene flow

In population genetics, gene flow (also known as migration and allele flow) is the transfer of genetic material from one population to another.

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Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Giant aye-aye

The giant aye-aye (Daubentonia robusta) is an extinct relative of the aye-aye, the only other species in the genus Daubentonia. Subfossil lemur and giant aye-aye are subfossil lemurs.

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Giant mouse lemur

The giant mouse lemurs are members of the strepsirrhine primate genus Mirza.

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Giant tortoise

Giant tortoises are any of several species of various large land tortoises, which include a number of extinct species, as well as two extant species with multiple subspecies formerly common on the islands of the western Indian Ocean and on the Galápagos Islands.

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Greater bamboo lemur

The greater bamboo lemur (Hapalemur simus), also known as the broad-nosed bamboo lemur and the broad-nosed gentle lemur, is a species of lemur endemic to the island of Madagascar.

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Grewia

Grewia is a large flowering plant genus in the mallow family Malvaceae, in the expanded sense as proposed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.

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Ground sloth

Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra.

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Guillaume Grandidier

Guillaume Grandidier (1 July 1873 – 13 September 1957) was a French geographer, ethnologist, and zoologist who studied the island of Madagascar.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.

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Habitat fragmentation

Habitat fragmentation describes the emergence of discontinuities (fragmentation) in an organism's preferred environment (habitat), causing population fragmentation and ecosystem decay.

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Hadropithecus

Hadropithecus is a medium-sized, extinct genus of lemur, or strepsirrhine primate, from Madagascar that includes a single species, Hadropithecus stenognathus. Subfossil lemur and Hadropithecus are subfossil lemurs.

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Hairy-eared dwarf lemur

The hairy-eared dwarf lemur (Allocebus trichotis), or hairy-eared mouse lemur, is one of the most scarcely known lemurs.

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Herbert F. Standing

Herbert Fox Standing (5 July 1857 – 24 December 1943) was an English paleontologist and Quaker medical missionary in Madagascar.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Humerus

The humerus (humeri) is a long bone in the arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow.

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Incisor

Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.

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Indri

The indri (Indri indri), also called the babakoto, is one of the largest living lemurs, with a head-body length of about and a weight of between.

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Indriidae

The Indriidae (sometimes incorrectly spelled Indridae) are a family of strepsirrhine primates.

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Intermembral index

The intermembral index is a ratio used to compare limb proportions, expressed as a percentage.

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Introduced species

An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.

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Isotope

Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element.

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Jean-Henri Humbert

Jean-Henri Humbert (24 January 1887 – 20 October 1967) was a French botanist born in Paris.

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Karst

Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.

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Koala

The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), sometimes called the koala bear, is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia.

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Last Glacial Period

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.

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Late Pleistocene

The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective.

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Late Pleistocene extinctions

The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafaunal (typically defined as having body masses over) animal species (the Pleistocene megafauna), which resulted in a collapse in faunal density and diversity across the globe.

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Laurie Godfrey

Laurie R. Godfrey (born August 27, 1945) is an American paleontologist and physical anthropologist.

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Lemur

Lemurs (from Latin lemures – "ghosts" or "spirits") are wet-nosed primates of the superfamily Lemuroidea, divided into 8 families and consisting of 15 genera and around 100 existing species.

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Lemuridae

Lemuridae is a family of strepsirrhine primates native to Madagascar and the Comoros.

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List of lemuroids

Lemuroidea is a superfamily of primates.

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Local extinction

Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

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Long bone

The long bones are those that are longer than they are wide.

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Loris

Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine mammals of the subfamily Lorinae (sometimes spelled Lorisinae) in the family Lorisidae.

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Macaque

The macaques constitute a genus (Macaca) of gregarious Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae.

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Madagascar dry deciduous forests

The Madagascar dry deciduous forests represent a tropical dry forest ecoregion situated in the western and northern part of Madagascar.

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Madagascar spiny forests

The Madagascar spiny forests (also known as the Madagascar spiny thickets) is an ecoregion in the southwest of Madagascar.

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Madagascar succulent woodlands

The Madagascar succulent woodlands are a xeric shrublands ecoregion in southwestern and central western Madagascar.

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Malagasy hippopotamus

Several species of Malagasy hippopotamus (also known as Malagasy pygmy hippopotamus or Madagascan pygmy hippopotamus) lived on the island of Madagascar but are now believed to be extinct. Subfossil lemur and Malagasy hippopotamus are Prehistoric animals of Madagascar.

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Malagasy peoples

The Malagasy (Malgache) are a group of Austronesian-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the island country of Madagascar.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Marsupial

Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia.

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Megafauna

In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals.

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Megaladapis

Megaladapis, informally known as the koala lemur, is an extinct genus of lemurs belonging to the family Megaladapidae, consisting of three species that once inhabited the island of Madagascar. Subfossil lemur and Megaladapis are Prehistoric animals of Madagascar and subfossil lemurs.

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Mesic habitat

In ecology, a mesic habitat is a type of habitat with a well-balanced or moderate supply of moisture throughout the growing season (e.g., a mesic forest, temperate hardwood forest, or dry-mesic prairie).

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Mesopropithecus

Mesopropithecus is an extinct genus of small to medium-sized lemur, or strepsirrhine primate, from Madagascar that includes three species, M. dolichobrachion, M. globiceps, and M. pithecoides. Subfossil lemur and Mesopropithecus are subfossil lemurs.

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Mesowear

Mesowear is a method, used in different branches and fields of biology.

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Molar (tooth)

The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.

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Molecular phylogenetics

Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.

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Monkey

Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians.

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Monkey lemur

The monkey lemurs or baboon lemurs (Archaeolemuridae) are a recently extinct family of lemurs known from skeletal remains from sites on Madagascar dated to 1000 to 3000 years ago. Subfossil lemur and monkey lemur are subfossil lemurs.

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Morondava

Morondava (from morona lava "long coast") is a city located in Menabe Region, of which it is the capital, in Madagascar.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Mouse lemur

The mouse lemurs are nocturnal lemurs of the genus Microcebus.

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Neontology

Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.

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Nocturnality

Nocturnality is a behavior in some non-human animals characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.

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Old World monkey

Old World monkeys are primates in the family Cercopithecidae.

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Omnivore

An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.

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Ontogeny

Ontogeny (also ontogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism (both physical and psychological, e.g., moral development), usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to adult.

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Optic canal

The optic foramen is the opening to the optic canal. The canal is located in the sphenoid bone; it is bounded medially by the body of the sphenoid and laterally by the lesser wing of the sphenoid. The superior surface of the sphenoid bone is bounded behind by a ridge, which forms the anterior border of a narrow, transverse groove, the chiasmatic groove (optic groove), above and behind which lies the optic chiasma; the groove ends on either side in the optic foramen, which transmits the optic nerve and ophthalmic artery (with accompanying sympathetic nerve fibres) into the orbital cavity.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Orangutan

Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia.

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Orbit (anatomy)

In anatomy, the orbit is the cavity or socket/hole of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

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Pachylemur

Pachylemur is an extinct, giant lemur most closely related to the ruffed lemurs of genus Varecia. Subfossil lemur and Pachylemur are subfossil lemurs.

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Pachypodium

Pachypodium is a genus of succulent spine-bearing trees and shrubs, native to Madagascar and Africa.

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Palaeopropithecus

Palaeopropithecus is a recently extinct genus of large sloth lemurs from Madagascar related to living lemur species found there today. Subfossil lemur and Palaeopropithecus are Prehistoric animals of Madagascar and subfossil lemurs.

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Paleontology

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Patricia Wright (primatologist)

Patricia Chapple Wright (born September 10, 1944) is an American primatologist, anthropologist, and conservationist.

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Personal grooming

Grooming (also called preening) is the art and practice of cleaning and maintaining parts of the body.

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Phalanx bone

The phalanges (phalanx) are digital bones in the hands and feet of most vertebrates.

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Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Plague (disease)

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Plesiorycteropus

Plesiorycteropus, also known as the bibymalagasy or Malagasy aardvark, is a recently extinct genus of mammals from Madagascar. Subfossil lemur and Plesiorycteropus are Prehistoric animals of Madagascar.

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Postcrania

Postcrania (postcranium, adjective: postcranial) in zoology and vertebrate paleontology is all or part of the skeleton apart from the skull.

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Primary production

In ecology, primary production is the synthesis of organic compounds from atmospheric or aqueous carbon dioxide.

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Primate

Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which include tarsiers; and the simians, which include monkeys and apes.

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Protected areas of Madagascar

The national parks of Madagascar include all officially recognized protected areas as of 2015.

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Quadrupedalism

Quadrupedalism is a form of locomotion where animals have four legs are used to bear weight and move around.

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Quaternary

The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Radiocarbon dating

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

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Radius (bone)

The radius or radial bone (radii or radiuses) is one of the two large bones of the forearm, the other being the ulna.

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Ramilisonina

Ramilisonina is an archaeologist from Madagascar.

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Retinal summation

Retinal summation describes the relationship between different types of cells in the retina: cone photoreceptor cells, bipolar cells, and ganglion cells.

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Ring-tailed lemur

The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) is a medium- to larger-sized strepsirrhine (wet-nosed) primate and the most internationally recognized lemur species, owing to its long, black-and-white, ringed tail.

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Ruffed lemur

The ruffed lemurs of the genus Varecia are strepsirrhine primates and are the largest extant lemurs within the family Lemuridae.

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Salvadora (plant)

Salvadora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Salvadoraceae.

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Sambirano

The Sambirano region, also known as the Sambirano domain, is a biogeographic region of northwestern Madagascar.

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Seed dispersal

In spermatophyte plants, seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant.

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Seed predation

Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores (seed predators) feed on the seeds of plants as a main or exclusive food source,Hulme, P.E. and Benkman, C.W. (2002) "Granivory", pp.

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Semicircular canals

The semicircular canals are three semicircular interconnected tubes located in the innermost part of each ear, the inner ear.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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Sexual maturity

Sexual maturity is the capability of an organism to reproduce.

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Sifaka

A sifaka is a lemur of the genus Propithecus from the family Indriidae within the order Primates.

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Simian

The simians, anthropoids, or higher primates are an infraorder (Simiiformes) of primates containing all animals traditionally called monkeys and apes.

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Sloth

Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths.

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Sloth lemur

The sloth lemurs (Palaeopropithecidae) comprise an extinct family of lemurs that includes four genera. Subfossil lemur and sloth lemur are subfossil lemurs.

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Social behavior is behavior among two or more organisms within the same species, and encompasses any behavior in which one member affects the other.

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Species distribution

Species distribution, or species dispersion, is the manner in which a biological taxon is spatially arranged.

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Spore

In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual (in fungi) or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions.

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Sporormiella

Sporormiella is a genus of fungi in the phylum Ascomycota whose species can be found worldwide, including the Arctic.

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Sportive lemur

The sportive lemurs are the medium-sized primates that make up the family Lepilemuridae.

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Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).

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Strepsirrhini

Strepsirrhini or Strepsirhini is a suborder of primates that includes the lemuriform primates, which consist of the lemurs of Madagascar, galagos ("bushbabies") and pottos from Africa, and the lorises from India and southeast Asia.

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Strychnos

Strychnos is a genus of flowering plants, belonging to the family Loganiaceae (sometimes Strychnaceae).

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Subfossil lemur

Subfossil lemurs are lemurs from Madagascar that are represented by recent (subfossil) remains dating from nearly 26,000 years ago to approximately 560 years ago (from the late Pleistocene until the Holocene). Subfossil lemur and Subfossil lemur are Prehistoric animals of Madagascar and subfossil lemurs.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Suspensory behavior

Suspensory behaviour is a form of arboreal locomotion or a feeding behavior that involves hanging or suspension of the body below or among tree branches.

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Sympatry

In biology, two related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another.

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Synergy

Synergy is an interaction or cooperation giving rise to a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts (i.e., a non-linear addition of force, energy, or effect).

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Synonym (taxonomy)

The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.

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Tamarind

Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) is a leguminous tree bearing edible fruit that is indigenous to tropical Africa and naturalized in Asia.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Taxonomy (biology)

In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

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Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g.

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Terrestrial locomotion

Terrestrial locomotion has evolved as animals adapted from aquatic to terrestrial environments.

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Thermoregulation

Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different.

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Tibia

The tibia (tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects the knee with the ankle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subfossil_lemur

Also known as Giant Lemur, Giant lemurs, Kidoky, Subfossil lemurs, Tratratratra, Tretretretre.

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