Nope, not a spider (count the legs): Nine ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta, note the name) nomming at Qingdao Forest Wildlife World in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, January 27, 2015. Photo by REUTERS/China Daily from Reuters 24 Hours in Pictures, Editor’s Choice:
Lemurs are of course endemic to Madagascar, not China.
It’s a tarantula!
Lemantula?
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Love the lemurs! Marvelous picture!
Do they get rings with age like a tree? I counted 13 on one but hard to figure the others.
Thank you-
I love lemurs! Always remind me of Dr. Seuss, maybe it’s the striped tail.
They rub scent on the tails from special glands, and walk around with their advertizing scents wafting behind.
Oh! The Places You’ll Go – may they include Madagascar.
Surely lemurs are honorary cats, yes?
Whatever they are eating, it must be good.
My amygdala had already reacted to SPIDER! before I could count the legs!
I tw**ted that pic a few days ago. I thought it was a spider when I first saw it, and so did a few of my followers judging by the responses I got.
Either way, it’s a fabulous pic.
What a fantastic shot!
Here in South Texas, there’s a slender raccoon relative, the ringtail (or ring-tailed cat) that can occasionally be seen in the suburbs/exurbs, and more often seen if you’re camping out in the Hill Country. A few years ago, some visitors from the upper Midwest were thrilled to inform us at breakfast that a troop of lemurs had visited their campsite after sunset. Even after being told about the ringtails, they insisted that the animals were lemurs (somehow magically transported from Madagascar).
Now waiting for the invasion of tourists from Michigan, demanding to see the wild lemurs of Blanco County.
Tell them that they were all eaten by chupacabras.
Bassariscus astutus – remember we have to learn to use the binomial to distinguish!
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This reminds me of this this.
Good one – I really thought those were brontosauruses.
Which is ridiculous, because those are clearly Giraffatitans.
One of the highlights of my visit to the Singapore zoo a couple of years ago was the lemur garden, where visitors could walk among the lemurs (of course they were a bit skittish, so actual contact was limited). Such delicate, beautiful creatures.
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Ah! Lemurians! The equal of the Atlantans anyway 🙂
It amuses me that Lemuria, hypothesized before plate tectonics to explain lemur biography, is now associated with the occult fringe.
I didn’t see a spider, I thought it was a huge horrific sea star! The Melbourne Zoo has a lovely new lemur enclosure which you can walk through. It’s fabulous.
Not a spider – it’s a mimic octopus!
There’s a saying about “as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.”
Lemurs should be equally nervous.