(Eurekalert.) Scientists had recognized just two species of these enigmatic mammals, the Sunda colugo and the Philippine colugo. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
A Malayan colugo glides between trees with a baby hanging on. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
Scientists had recognized just two species of these enigmatic mammals, the Sunda colugo and the Philippine colugo. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
"It appears that within smaller geographic areas, for example Java, there are divergent colugo lineages that could prove to be separate species," he added. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
"We were guessing that we might find that there were different species of Sunda colugo -- although we were not sure," said Jan Janecka of Texas A&M University. From Wordnik.com. [Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed] Reference
"It appears that within smaller geographic areas, for example Java, there are divergent colugo lineages that could prove to be separate species," said Janecka. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
"We were guessing that we might find that there were different species of Sunda colugo-although we were not sure," said Jan Janecka of Texas A and M University. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
"Until now, reductions in colugo numbers was considered just a range contraction, and so there were no conservation plans for restoring them or mitigating their loss," Janecka said. From Wordnik.com. [Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed] Reference
As sea levels, forest communities, and river systems fluctuated in Sundaland over the last 10 million years, Janecka speculates that isolated colugo populations would have undergone greater diversification from one another than other, more mobile mammals. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
Comparing the DNA of colugos across southeast Asia, an international team of researchers has found that Sunda colugo -- one of two known species of colugo (the other is the Philippine colugo) -- is actually made up of at least three species, which date back millions of years. From Wordnik.com. [Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed] Reference
History of Creation Haeckel saw various lemurs as the root stock from which various groups of placental mammals sprang, rodents arising from creatures like the aye-aye, bats from the colugo (known not to be a lemur today, but considered to belong to that group by Haeckel), and humans from large lemurs like the indri. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
I haven’t even mentioned the paromomyids: a group of Eocene euarchontans proposed at one time to be colugo-like gliders and thus implicated in the issue of primate and colugo origins. From Wordnik.com. [We flightless primates] Reference
Some went back four to five million years, "making the colugo species as old as other modern species groups (or genera) such as the primates known as macaques and the leopard cats. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
Malayan colugo. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
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