Ranging in size from 30 g (1.1 oz) to 9 kg (20 lb), lemurs share many common, basal primate traits, such as divergent digits on their hands and feet and nails instead of claws (in most species). However, their brain-to-body size ratio
is smaller than that of anthropoid primates, and among many other
traits they share with other strepsirrhine primates, they have a "wet
nose" (rhinarium).
Lemurs are generally the most social of the strepsirrhine primates and
communicate more with scents and vocalizations than with visual signals.
Many lemur adaptations are in response to Madagascar's highly seasonal
environment.
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