Hibernating dwarf lemurs can stay in this cold, standby state for about a week before they have to briefly warm up, and ...

Dwarf lemurs, however, have a way to extend their telomeres. A study published in the journal Biology Letters suggests that ...

It all happens during hibernation, said lead author Marina Blanco of Duke. When winter sets in in the wild, dwarf lemurs ...

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One group of animals was offered food if they were awake ... can live up to twice as long as other primates their size. A galago, a similar-sized primate that doesn’t hibernate, lives around ...

For smaller animals to jump higher, they have to dedicate a lot more of their mass to leg muscles. For example, the galago bush baby can jump 2.25 m (7 ft), which is 12 times its body length ...

One group of animals was offered food if they were awake and active ... It seems to work – dwarf lemurs can live up to twice ...

but in Galago crassicaudatus agisymbanus I have found peculiarities that I have not encountered or found described in other animals.