Today, all I did was work—cranking to finish a job (the technical bronze volume) by Friday. Which leaves me with nothing really to write about here. I could post a poem, as I sometimes do when I've got nothing. But today I think I'll post some photos I took in Madagascar: of lemur hands and feet.
The Duke Lemur Center says, "Lemurs are primates, which means they have grasping hands and feet. Their biggest toe (or on a lemur's hand, its thumb) is separated from the others, making it easy for them to grasp branches when climbing. That said, this makes a lemur's thumb only semi-opposable, so lemurs don't have the fine motor skills of monkeys or apes. All primates have fingernails instead of claws, although lemurs have one digit on each foot that is the exception." This exception is the lemur's grooming claw. The lemurs here are brown and white-ruffed, on Lemur Island near the village of Andasibe.
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