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Can I have some info on the tiniest monkey / primate? I just love seeing how small nature can make creatures
The worlds smallest primate is the Madame Berthe's mouse lemur! These lemurs are so tiny that they only weigh around 1.1 grams, making them about the same weight as a spoonful of peanut butter.
These nocturnal critters are solitary hunters that mostly eat bugs and small lizards. Despite their solitary activity, they sleep huddled up together. They have the shortest lifespan among primates (6-8 years in the wild) but the largest testicle to body ratio, so ball 'till you fall I guess. You can learn more about them here.
Mouse lemur from Sleepy and Busy Animals. Written by Mark Carwardine. Illustrated by Martin Camm, Dick Twinney, and John Francis. 1988.
The Brain Scoop: Meet the Museum’s only Field Biologist
Dr. Steve Goodman has one of the coolest jobs at The Field Museum. He’s the only scientist on staff to devote the majority of their time to conducting fieldwork, and has spent nearly 30 years mapping the biodiversity of` Madagascar. To say he’s prolific is an understatement: he’s published more than 600 papers, 24 books, and more than 10,000 pages of monographs in his lifetime. Most significantly, he’s played an essential role in the creation of an ecological training program for Malagasy scientists, called Vahatra, which has been crucial in building a foundation for Madagascar’s biological future.
Dr. Goodman may be one of the most influential biologists of our time, but he’d hate it if he knew I said as much. He’s incredibly kind, humble, and generous with his time -- I was lucky enough to get to sit down with him before he took off for the next field season!
If you want to know more about Steve, this article is fairly entertaining (although he’s told me it’s got some inaccuracies; he doesn’t, in fact, have a “perpetual case of malaria.”) The Michael Jordan of Field Biology.
Prosimians, as opposed to us amateursimians of course
It takes a lot of hard work to reach this level of performance
(Via Duke Lemur Center)
Mouse Lemurs
During breeding season, the testicles of male mouse lemurs increase in size to about 130% of their normal size.