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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:04 PM
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Bush babies (from this month's Smithsonian)
Apparently the issue with Bush babies has been known to scientists for some time now.

Pro-Simians (a name literally meaning pre-monkey, now used as a catchall category for lemurs, lorises and bush babies) tend to have proportionally smaller brains than their cousins, the monkeys and apes, and they generally rely more on scent than vision.

page 106, April 2006 issue


A little factoid that just, you know, caught my eye, fwiw...
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:05 PM
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1. But the prosimian-type bush babies are cute.
The other one -- not so much.
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-31-06 06:11 PM
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2. Bush babies are adorable
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