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- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
- Subject: Re: Man-eating lemurs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.042421.17335@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 04:24:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.174317.29648@plx.com> ann@plx.com (Ann Lindstrom) writes:
- >It is my understanding that the word lemur was derived from the latin(?) word
- >for ghost or spirit. I have heard two versions of how the lemurs were so
- >named. One is that the natives of Madagascar believed that some species of
- >lemurs were actually the souls of departed ancestors. The other is that when
- >Europeans first came to Madagascar, they were spooked by some of the nocturnal
- >species of lemurs, who hung out in the trees around the campsite, eyes glowing
- >yellow in the dark, and making eerie cries.
-
-
- In fact, lemurs are highly sought after by Boy Scout troop leaders for
- summer campouts, as there is nothing that will give a squad of Tenderfoots
- the willies faster than a lemur or two up in a tree making eerie cries and
- peering down at the campers with their glowing eyes.
-