单词 | mongoose lemur |
释义 | > as lemmasmongoose lemur 2. A nectar-feeding lemur, Eulemur mongoz, of north-eastern Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Now only as mongoose lemur. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > [noun] > member of suborder Prosimii (lemurs, etc.) > member of family Lemuridae > genus Lemur (lemur) > miscellaneous types of macauco1751 mongoose1758 Madagascar cat1900 1758 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. I. 12 The Mongooz. [Fr. parallel text Le Mongous.] These animals are brought from Madagascar, and many of the smaller islands between that and the East Indies; they seem to be one remove from the direct Monkey. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 240 A second of this kind [sc. the Maki], which is also a native of Madagascar, is the Mongooz. 1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 785/2 The mongooz, or woolly maucauco, inhabits Madagascar. 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 60 L. mongoz..The Mongooz... The Mongous pass a considerable portion of the day in sleep. 1868 Museum Nat. Hist. I. 43 The Mongous (Lemur Mongoz)..is a little larger than the ring-tailed lemur. 1884 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) I. 228 The Mongoose Lemur, or Woolly Macaco. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo iv. 61 The mongoose lemur, the black lemur, and the red-fronted lemur take to diurnal habits very easily. 1964 G. Durrell Menagerie Manor i. 15 The woolly-coated orange-eyed mongoose lemurs bound from branch to branch, wagging their long thick tails like dogs. 1996 Zoo Biol. 15 1 Across the past 20 years, captive reproduction has declined steeply in mongoose lemurs. < as lemmas |
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