lemur
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There’s a charity called Monkeys Without Borders, led by a woman who has “changed her name to Xotica Lemur, even though lemurs are not monkeys.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The meeting at Duke Lemur Center in the US, led Professor Fabre and her colleagues to question the evolutionary origins of the habit.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2022
Michael Cisek, a military analyst with consulting firm Aerodynamic Advisory, said it’s difficult for Russian forces to either jam or pinpoint the Lemur signals.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2022
The Lemur, which navigates by laser-based lidar rather than satellite-based GPS, is less hackable.
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022
Lemur, lē′mur, n. a genus of mammals appearing to stand between the Insectivora and the monkeys, forest dwellers, mainly nocturnal in habits, common in Madagascar.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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