Along with the Indri, the Diademed Sifaka is the largest of the living lemurs.\u00a0 There used to be many more large species (some as large as a small female gorilla), but they’ve become extinct with exposure to man (way to go, man!).\u00a0 With arms fully extended, the Indri can reach nearly 4 feet in length and can weigh nearly 30 pounds.<\/p>\n
The largest known lemur in the United States was a Sifaka named Mac, who lived on a farm outside of Libertyville, Illinois.\u00a0 When he died from heart failure in 2005, Mac weighed an incredible 45 pounds.\u00a0 He’d been trained to play a small cello, but in his last years did little more than slouch in a bean bag chair and eat Cap’n Crunch right out of the box.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is the largest lemur? [3592A] Along with the Indri, the Diademed Sifaka is the largest of the living lemurs.\u00a0 There used to be many more large species (some as large as a small female gorilla), but they’ve become extinct with exposure to man (way to go, man!).\u00a0 With arms fully extended, the Indri can … Continue reading What is the largest lemur?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lobby-book","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6444,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions\/6444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/answerperson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}