Photo by Norman Lim, National University of Singapore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nColugo Fast Fact – <\/strong>Although the Colugo is a tree dwelling animal they are actually awkward climbers. They are not very strong and don’t have an opposable thumb so it makes climbing difficult for them.\u00a0 The Colugo will make its way up the tree using slow hops and gripping onto the bark with their short, sharp claws.<\/p>\nThat does it for the Freaky Friday Wild Fact!\u00a0 Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since it is the last day of the work week (for me anyways!) I thought I would entertain all of us by talking about a very odd animal.\u00a0 Maybe I should make every Friday known as “Freaky Friday”.\u00a0 Today’s animal is called a Colugo but is also known as the Flying Lemur.\u00a0 Unfortunately there are two things wrong with this name.\u00a0 First the Colugo does not actually fly and secondly it is not a Lemur.\u00a0 I swear the people that make up names need to do a little more research.\u00a0 You can’t just go picking names for animals at the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,961,964,963,962,965,4025],"yoast_head":"\n
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