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PHILIPPINE FLYING LEMURCynocephalus volans© Sebastian / SudiaMirabilium.com The Philippine Flying Lemur is endemic to the Philippines. Its population is concentrated in the Mindanao region and Bohol. Although called a flying lemur, it cannot fly and is not a lemur. The Philippine Flying Lemur is one of the two living species of the order Dermoptera. The other species is the Sunda Flying Lemur. An average Philippine Flying Lemur weighs about 1 to 1.7 kilograms and is 14 to 17 inches long. It has a wide head, small ears and big eyes. Its clawed feet are large and webbed for fast climbing and for gliding. Its 12-inch tail is connected to the forelimbs via a patagium. This membrane helps it glide distances of 100 meters or more, useful for finding food and escaping predators such as the Philippine Eagle.  Its 34 teeth resemble those of a carnivore but the Philippine Flying Lemur eats mainly fruits, flowers and leaves. It is nocturnal and stays in hollow trees or clings on dense foliage during daytime. The female Philippine Flying Lemur usually gives birth to one young after a two-month gestation period. The young is helpless and attaches itself to its mother’s belly, in a pouch fashioned from the mother’s skin flaps. The Philippine Flying Lemur has sharp teeth, it feeds on plant matter, and fruit. Their incisor teeth are very unique, they are almost like a tiny combs with twenty tines on each incisor tooth – their function remains unknown. They resemble marsupials in their breeding and gestation—in that the baby is born just after 60 days, and it is very tiny and undeveloped. It will be two years before the baby is ready to venture out on its own. Folding under her tail, also folds in some of the membrane used for flying and provides a protective pocket for the baby. It is not confirmed but the Philippine Flying Lemur could prove to be the ancestral link between Marsupial and Placental mammals. Source and Source Other posts: Sunda Flying Lemur Head-Bobbing Lemur Philippine Eagle

PHILIPPINE FLYING LEMUR
Cynocephalus volans
© Sebastian / SudiaMirabilium.com

The Philippine Flying Lemur is endemic to the Philippines. Its population is concentrated in the Mindanao region and Bohol.

Although called a flying lemur, it cannot fly and is not a lemur. The Philippine Flying Lemur is one of the two living species of the order Dermoptera. The other species is the Sunda Flying Lemur.

An average Philippine Flying Lemur weighs about 1 to 1.7 kilograms and is 14 to 17 inches long. It has a wide head, small ears and big eyes. Its clawed feet are large and webbed for fast climbing and for gliding. Its 12-inch tail is connected to the forelimbs via a patagium. This membrane helps it glide distances of 100 meters or more, useful for finding food and escaping predators such as the Philippine Eagle.  Its 34 teeth resemble those of a carnivore but the Philippine Flying Lemur eats mainly fruits, flowers and leaves. It is nocturnal and stays in hollow trees or clings on dense foliage during daytime. The female Philippine Flying Lemur usually gives birth to one young after a two-month gestation period. The young is helpless and attaches itself to its mother’s belly, in a pouch fashioned from the mother’s skin flaps.

The Philippine Flying Lemur has sharp teeth, it feeds on plant matter, and fruit. Their incisor teeth are very unique, they are almost like a tiny combs with twenty tines on each incisor tooth – their function remains unknown. They resemble marsupials in their breeding and gestation—in that the baby is born just after 60 days, and it is very tiny and undeveloped. It will be two years before the baby is ready to venture out on its own. Folding under her tail, also folds in some of the membrane used for flying and provides a protective pocket for the baby. It is not confirmed but the Philippine Flying Lemur could prove to be the ancestral link between Marsupial and Placental mammals.

Source and Source

Other posts:

Sunda Flying Lemur

Head-Bobbing Lemur

Philippine Eagle

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    Lemur… Cannot fly.
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  16. princess-adrienne said: When I read the last line about the females carrying the babies in skin flaps, I figured they would be marsupials, but they aren’t. Another website revealed that some scientists think they are the link between placental and marsupial animals. Cool!
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