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- From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
- Subject: Re: Lemur tricks
- Message-ID: <C04EwM.MD1@polaris.async.vt.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 11:07:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.162635.4768@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)
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- In article <1992Dec28.162635.4768@memstvx1.memst.edu> nvonstein@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
- >Last week at the zoo I saw one of the black lemurs doing backflips on a limb.
- >I mean he would do five or six without stopping, then he would look around and
- >would do another series of backflips. It was really something to see - he
- >reminded me of those Polish springboard artists in the circus. They were
- >absolutely perfect backflips. Since we are taught to study animal behaviour
- >and because he did such perfect backflips, I watched this lemur for quite a
- >while - I was spellbound. But I could not come up with any reasonable
- >explanation for this behaviour.
- >
- >Joel - Maybe you could ask Nigel what it means when a lemur does backflips on a
- >limb - or even on the ground for that matter.
- >
- >Nancy (Spellbound lemur watcher!!)
-
- I asked Nigel. Nigel's response, translated from the Lemur, was: "it
- usually means the lemur's either trying to get extra snacks by looking
- cute or trying to impress cute she-lemurs by looking studly and
- masculine." Nigel went on to say (translated) that "_SOME_ of us don't
- have to DO tricks to impress the chicks."
-
- Joel "The next generation of lemurs has to come from SOMEWHERE" Furr
- jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
-