How did these tree-hopping furry angels evolve to be the cutest thing in the world, objectively speaking? They have saucer eyes, wet noses, chunky tails, toe claws, matriarchies, a feature film starring role, and all the mystery of 100 species spending millions of years on a remote island. Wildlife ecologist and official Lemurologist Dr. Lydia Greene finally joins me to bust flim-flam straight out of the gate and talk about Madagascar, aye-ayes, ring tailed lemurs, Zoboomafoo, evolutionary biology, hibernation, jumping, hopping, these endangered primates’ conservation, and so much more. If you thought you liked lemurs, just wait until you’re obsessed with them.

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Visit Dr. Lydia Greene’s website and follow her and Dr. Marina B. Blanco on Instagram @lemurscientist

A donation went to the Mahaliana Labs

Links to things we discussed:

The Duke Lemur Center

LEMURS CAN SMELL WEAKNESS IN EACH OTHER

Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) use olfaction to locate distant fruit

Lemurs move-it moving it: a fiction

Mouse lemur

Ruffed lemur vocalizations

The Legend Of Babakoto