#strepsirrhini

[boiga]

A red fronted lemur (Eulemur rufifrons) forages for baobab seeds in Toliara, Madagascar

by Chien Lee

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Have you done pottos yet? Cincinnati Zoo had a baby born a few years ago and the footage/photos are adorable

Looks like they had a baby potto born in 2013, before pottos were classified into three different species (in 2015) and I couldn't find what specific species they have, so I'll do a poll on the whole genus.

Have you seen the potto (Genus: Perodicticus)?

I have now

Yes, in photos/videos

Yes, irl

I'm not sure

Voting ended onFeb 22

The first photo is of a West African potto, the second is of a East African potto.

[all-mammal-creechur]

Zanzibar Galago Paragalago zanzibaricus

It is the most widespread and abundant bushbaby in the coastal forests of Tanzania. Like other species of galagos, its diet consists mainly of fruit, insects, and tree gums.

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[saritawolf]

Crowned Lemur (male) (Eulemur coronatus) - (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost

[birdblues]

Crowned Sifaka

[rikaklassen]

via Bluesky. Zine designed by Strepsirrhini with quotes from Sage Deviant and Sally Darity.

You can also find the printable zine from Pixelfed.

[craftingcreatures]

I FREAKING KNEW IT

Guys, I'm not crazy. Or at least, not for the reasons I thought I was.

See this? This is the hand of a Potto (Perodicticus potto).

Pottos are small, nocturnal primates native to jungles in west-central Africa. They're related to Lorises, Galagos, and (more distantly) Lemurs. They have Absolute Creature™ energy:

Look at that hand. Look how WEIRD it is. See the index finger? NO YOU DON'T because it ISN'T THERE. These fluffy tree-goblins have almost completely lost their index finger, retaining only a vestigial nub. Why? Specifically for the purpose of having creepy little almost-human-but-fundamentally-wrong-in-an-unsettling-way hands (jk it's something to do with better grasping ability).

See, I knew about the Potto. I knew it existed; I knew that it was a small, slow-moving, nocturnal strepsirrhine with some wonky neck vertebrae that it uses for defence. I ALSO knew about those creepy (I use the term affectionately) hands that have a place to put an index finger but no index finger to put there.

HOWEVER, I knew about these two things SEPARATELY. I never made the connection that those amputee-looking hands belonged to the Potto - I spent YEARS under the assumption that they belonged to a lemur of all things, specifically a Sifaka. How did I come to this conclusion? I have no freaking idea. I've been driving myself CRAZY trying to figure out which species of lemur has a vestigial index finger, when all the photos I could find show lemurs which very obviously have all four fingers. I was beginning to think I'd hallucinated it!

Anyway here's a picture of a bunch of different primate hands for your perusal

[vickysaurus]

Darwinius, an Eocene primate. What is perhaps even more amazing than the creature itself is the fact that the name Darwinius was still available by 2009.