| Location: Kathu, Phuket, Thailand |
| First cataloged in 1799, the Colugo is not really a lemur, but one of two species in the Dermoptera, or “skin-wing” family. C. variegates is the Malay Peninsula specie, while C. volans is the Philippine colugo.
With only two species in the same family, Colugo serve as evidence of Sunda Shelf biodiversity allowing the family to migrate from Phuket to the Philippines when seas retreated 120 meters only 18,000 years ago. |
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