Greater bamboo lemur
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| phylum | Chordata | The greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus), also known as the broad-nosed bamboo lemur and the broad-nosed gentle lemur, is the largest bamboo lemur, at over five pounds or nearly 2.5 kilograms. It has greyish brown fur and white ear tufts, and has a head-body length of around one and a half feet, or forty to fifty centimeters. They have relatively long tails and long back legs for leaping vertically amongst the trees of their forest habitat.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Primates | |
| suborder | Strepsirrhini | |
| family | Lemuridae | |
| genus | Prolemur | |
| species | P. simus |
