"... they have idiosyncratic habits. Male ring-tailed lemurs have scent glands on their wrists, and engage in 'stink-fighting,' battles in which they stand two feet apart and wipe their hands on their tails, then shake the tail at their opponent, all the while maintaining an aggressive stare until one or the other retreats. It feels no madder than current forms of diplomacy. It’s not unusual for female ring-tailed lemurs to slap males across the face when they become aggressive."
Writes Katherine Rundell, in
"Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures" (commission earned) quoted in
"A Pretty Girl, a Novel with Voices, and Ring-Tailed Lemurs" (Paris Review).
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Ring-tailed lemurs. Them are good eatin'.
My daughter had the opportunity to visit Madagascar to do legal training as part of a UN program recently; she showed us photos of the many types of lemurs she encountered in her off-time travels.
And anyone who has children/grandchildren who are Wild Kratts fans can relate to the lemur stink-fights on their game app.
I always get lemurs and meercats mixed up.
Inferential observations are odd manifestations of human evolution from cloud theory and the compelling need to assign labels.
“Animals are assholes” tag
Celebrate Greg’s Animal Friends
It turns dark pretty quick…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RHmrZ87tB78
Hmm... seems gender is innate.
...wipe their hands on their tails, then shake the tail at their opponent, all the while maintaining an aggressive stare...
I'm betting we'll be seeing the same behavior from the blue haired cat ladies on TikTok soon.
Every hard boiled sheamus gets his mug slapped by a dame peddling a lie.
Who wipes?
They like to move it, move it.
My cat is a jerk.
Meanwhile, there are still 18 monkeys what escaped from a South Carolina research facility on the loose. The monkeys were being used to test the efficacy of extra-strength Viagra and authorities are advising citizens to “keep teh fuck away from ‘em, y’all!”
Lemurs are strange, when you’re a stranger.
There's a silver lining to the fact that Ann can't ban anyone outright, but has to go in and delete comments individually. The fact that they stay up for an hour or two allows "D-- S--" to demonstrate (temporarily) exactly why her posts are invariably deleted: she really is a nasty, vicious moron who desperately needs the services of a psychiatrist, or perhaps an exorcist.
As long as they know the difference, things will work out.
How stupid do you have to be not to notice that Ann is open to all political positions, and only deletes those who repeatedly act like complete assholes and total lunatic swine, as D--- S--- has now done four more times? I believe the only people currently banned are D--- S--- (known for many years, and tens of thousands of ephemeral comments, as M--- E. G---), and Sprez---, who may in fact be the same person. Does anyone know?
@Derve Swanson
Actually, we both misspelled it. As a synonym for a private investigator as made popular by detective fiction created by such authors as Michael Collins, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and others, it's shamus.
Take a lesson from the army of pundits slain last Tuesday night: It's bad form to be pedantic and wrong.
Females are dominant in Lemur troops.
"Stink fighting" happens after "stink flirting" which happens when a female is ready to breed and emits a "stink" of her own which stimulates the male response and then the Lemurian cage matches.
Girls entice boys and encourage them to fight. Just like in the Lemur troops, we are but tools of the matriarchy.
I fart in your general direction
I can't help but think that the Derve/Ann fracas has something to do with Althouse's affection for Wallace Shawn.
Be gone italics
@Derve Yes, you were wrong. Doubly wrong in that you didn't recognize the obvious detective fiction argot in the first place in stupidly concluding "sheamus" was a proper noun and not jargon, and you incorrectly corrected me.
Another day at Althouse.
Mirrors are cruel, aren't they, Derve.
Wait - are posters here deliberately emulating a stink fight, or is it just emergent strategy?
You are amazingly dense, Derve Swanson. You still do not grasp the difference between a proper noun, such as a personal name (btw, personal names have no orthography) and jargon. You think you're arguing with me, but you are in fact arguing with many dictionaries, The Oxford English Dictionary, for one.
Yes. Lemurs are asshole but if the could of they'd have voted for Trump. Because thay aren't complete assholes.
The lemurs at the Austin Zoo are lovely critters and now I know why they look so often agitated. They are in a small enclosure and the stink from every past disagreement must still be present. And I will be using "Lemurian cage match" in future, it seems amazingly useful as a phrase to toss out in political discussion. The things you learn at Althouse!
Stink Fighting doesn't seem as bad as Diddy Parties.
Ther View says Trmp gonna put lemures in concentration camp becord Haitians eat them
Seems a non-violent way of addressing conflicts. I think Putin and Zelenskyy would have been better off if they ate a bunch of cabbage and were forced into the same room with poor ventilation.
It still beats the mating rituals of goats.
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