🦊🐛 In the forests of #Madagascar, #lemurs have learned to use #millipedes as a specialized form of #medicine.

By gently biting the #insects, the #primates trigger the release of defensive #chemicals that act as a potent repellent against #malaria-carrying #mosquitoes. The lemurs rub the secretions into their fur and even ingest small amounts to treat internal parasites. The toxins cause a brief, trancelike state.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/tv/lemurs-licking-millipedes-bbc

#wildlife #nature #science #biology #chemistry #evolution #BBC #animals

This linocut shows a conspiracy of lemurs in all senses of the words. The collective noun for a group of lemurs is a “conspiracy”. Isn’t that marvelous? These ring-tailed lemurs definitely appear to be up to something. Caught in the act of scheming. The word “lemurs” mimics their tails, of course!

The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) is a wet-nosed primate, endemic to Madagascar. 🧵1/

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1547400472

#linocut #printmaking #termsOfVenery #lemurs #ringtailedLemur #lettering #sciart

At NFC I found myself at the Lemur Chat table so decided to draw some Lemurs for them. I hope they like it. <3

Watercolour pencils on Paper.

Art by me.

#Lemur #Lemurs #Indigoart

Rhino gets eye drops, lonely penguin gets a stuffed toy, frog gets a house and a salad, lemur gets a suntan, and more.

Do I really need to have the blow-by-blow of how my FICO score is increasing or decreasing?

Any day now: "Good news! Your FICO score is tap dancing with a troupe of lemurs!   "

(Actually, there's a setting and I turned off such notifications.)

#credit #FICO #lemurs

An endangered menu (cartoon) https://news.mongabay.com/custom-story/2026/01/an-endangered-menu-cartoon/

#AnimalRights #wildlife #lemurs #Madagascar

To fill in the blanks of my previous post.

In Madagascar’s cities, a quiet but lucrative market is reshaping the future of one of the world’s most imperiled groups of animals. Lemurs—already the most threatened mammals on the planet—are being sold as a kind of urban delicacy, traded through discreet channels that rarely resemble the conventional wildlife markets familiar across Africa or Asia.
#biodiversity #lemurs #bushmeat #endangeredspecies #madagascar

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/lemurs-are-being-eaten-as-an-urban-delicacy-in-madagascar/

Madagascar’s lemurs face a new, additional and unprecedented threat — the demand for lemur meat among the country’s urban elite, falsely believed to have health benefits.
The elite should be taught a lesson. Don't know if a cartoon like this does the job. But it surely is another way of drawing the most necessary attention.
#biodiversity #lemurs #endangeredspecies #bushmeat #madagascar

https://news.mongabay.com/custom-story/2026/01/an-endangered-menu-cartoon/