Lemurs are like backward monkeys - the simian equivalent of someone from Alabama or Gloucestershire, if you will. Despite this, they are jolly little fellows and as such they are Madagascar's number one tourist attraction as well as it's most important host for dangerous parasitic insects. That's right, the sort of insect that burrows into your skin and lays eggs.
In less enlightened times, lemur fur was much sought after for the manufacture of hats and gloves, the lemur being a cheap and cheerful substitute for mink.
The lemur's stripey tail often leads to it being confused with the raccoon. This intensely annoys the lemurs but recent research has shown that it hardly bothers the raccoons at all.
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