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The term "lemur" is mostly a naming convention for the prosimian (pre-monkey) primates that are native to Madagascar. The closest cousins of lemurs, the bush babies and other loris-like primates are still found in Africa. Lemurs made it to Madagascar about 60+ million years ago by accidentally rafting on floating debris and became isolated from the rest of Africa.

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