To make a home in tall, skinny trees, you need to be good at climbing… and jumping!
Sifaka Lemur
Crazy Skill: Graceful Leaping
This is the sifaka lemur. Crazy skill: graceful leaping!
Sifaka lemurs live in the forests of Madagascar.
To help them jump from tree to tree, they have specially adapted legs, which are much longer and more powerful than their arms.
One strong push… and just look at them soar!
Because their legs are so much longer than their arms, sifaka lemurs can’t walk on all fours like most other primates.
So if they need to get somewhere on foot, they leap across the ground like ballet dancers!
Maybe we should call them twinkle toes!
So how does the sifaka lemur score on the crazy-o-meter?
powerful legs
It uses its long, powerful legs to leap through the trees, and move gracefully across the ground!
That’s kinda crazy!