Flying Lemur
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
gliding mammal native to the tropical lowland forests of S Asia, Malaya, and the Philippines. Also called the colugo, the flying lemur is brownish or grayish above and paler below.
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Malayan flying lemur,
Sunda flying lemur
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Dermoptera - flying lemurs or colugos
This order has only one family with two species in it. Flying lemurs are about the size of a squirrel. They have skin flaps on their arms and legs that let them glide. Flying lemurs are found in southeast Asia.
Order Dermoptera (flying lemurs)
Order Lagomorpha (hares, pikas, and rabbits)
Order Primates (primates) ...
The closest relatives of bats among mammals may be tree shrews (tupaiids), primates or colugos/flying lemurs (dermopterans); together, these four groups would form the grandorder Archonta.
Bats are thought to be related most closely to the Dermoptera, a small order of mammals (two species) which includes the colugos or "flying lemurs" of the Phillippines.
Although some other groups of mammals, such as flying lemurs, are able to glide using skin membranes, only bats are capable of true flight.
Philippine flying lemur (Cynocephalus volans)
Southern round-gland toad (Incilius ibarrai)
Henst's goshawk (Accipiter henstii)
Black-cheeked lovebird (Agapornis nigrigenis)
Umbrella cockatoo (Cacatua alba)
Okinawa rail (Gallirallus okinawae) ...
3. Dermoptera (Colugo, or Flying Lemur).
4. Edentata: a. Xenarthra (Anteaters, Sloths and Armadillos).
b. Pholidota (Pangolins).
The Philippine Eagle is sometimes known as the Monkey-eating Eagle. While they do eat monkeys such as long-tailed macaques, flying lemurs are much more common prey.
The tarsier, which ranges from the Philippines to the East Indies, it is usually considered intermediate between the lemur and the New World monkey. The cobego , misscalled the Flying lemur , is not a primate but a member of the order Dermoptera.
The term is generically used for the members of the four lemuriform families, but it is also the genus of one of the lemuriform species. The two flying lemur species are not lemurs, nor are they even primates.
 See also: Lemur, Colugo, Monkey, Manatee, Chiroptera
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