My Favourite Science TopicBy: Claire MacKay-Dietrich

My favourite topic was when we learnt about Madagascar and we became experts on certain species. I did mammals of Madagascar.

This is the ring-tailed lemur I had to research on how lemurs are different from other primates.

I enjoyed this unit because I got to research on animals I didn’t know much about and I had lots of fun making the Powerpoint which I made entirely by myself.

I also researched on why the kinkajou is not a lemur, the loris, bushbabies, the potto, tarsiers and the angwantibo.

The kinkajou is not a lemur!

Facts!O The four ridges on the bush baby's

ears allow the ears to wrinkle up!O Bush babies have a second tongue!O Bush babies can jump 2m!O Lorises are poisonous!O Slow lorises have extra vertebrate!O Lemur means “spirits of the dead”

because they are nocturnal and they howl really loud!

O Prosimian means “before monkey”!O Prosimians have been around for 65

million years!O Red-ruffed lemurs are extremely

vocal, early explorers mistook the sounds for groans/wails of the dead!

O Kinkajou genetic studies show it belongs to the family Procyonidae (Raccoon Family)!

Thank You!

Next time though I could add more photos and make the slides less busy.

Bye! Thanks for listening!

Any Questions?