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Subject: Re: To RayMystrio and any else who cares From: (profile name not found) posted Fri, Feb 25 2005, 6:10pm  LOL! Nuthin' worse than an infestation of giant lemurs, I reckon. Subject: Re: To RayMystrio and any else who cares From: MisterMannix posted Fri, Feb 25 2005, 10:04pm  I'm starting to wonder if that is not the explanation for this lad's sighting. I've been reading up a bit on this MidWestern "devil monkey" thing. They tend to describe a dogfaced creature, that can walk errect, between five and seven feet tall, with long tails that some witnesses describe as reticulated. So far, none of the descriptions I have read come from witnesses with a stong zooology background. What I keep noticing as I read all of these sightings, is that these animals sound like Lemurs!. There are over fifty species of lemure, all on Madagascar and the Comoros, suggesting to me that lemurs have a tallent for adapting to their enviroment. I've read up on them. That Duke sight is fairly informative. There are no living species of lemur as large as these "devil monkeyes" but there are several extinct species that wieghed in up to 170 pounds. One species, Archeoindrus fontoynobii, is "Thought to mass about 200kg. The skeleton suggests a gorilla like life-style..." I think a 400 pound lemur would be pretty much what some of these witnesses have described. I have no theory as to how an extinct species of prosimian from Madagasgar would have arrived in the Northern reaches of North America. The distance seems impossible, although some of these species only became extinct 500 years ago, and five hundred years ago the arab and indian merchant seamen who ruled Madagascar did have trade networks all over the world. (Those guys even had a piece of the Atlantic slave trade.) So, we do have a very small window, with only the slimist opening, for the possiblility that some crazy sea captian managed to capture and transported a number of giant lemurs off of Madagasgar, some how got them to the New World and released them, and over the past five hundred years those lemurs have been evolving to find a neiche in this new enviroment. I'm usually the first guy to point out that history is full of weird events such as that, but it is just a little bit too improbable. It would make a great X-files reunion special, perhaps I should be pitching this as a screenplay. Subject: Re: To RayMystrio and any else who cares From: AvandisFifth187 posted Wed, Mar 9 2005, 12:55pm  It weren't no lemur. I would have seen a tail or something. Besides, unless they grew about another 2 hundred pounds thicker, I don't think so.

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