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Spring is on its way to North America and researchers are quietly happy. Little dwarf lemurs are waking up after several months in hibernation. This is the first time that these hairy animals with fat tails have gone into a long hibernation in confinement.
A new study, which revived seasonal conditions to entice caged dwarf lemurs into hibernation just like the way their wild kin do in the western part of Madagascar, propose that these lemurs can go back to their wild sleeping ways after years of training in captive care.
A primate biologist, Erin Ehmke from the Duke Lemur Center where the study was done said that they have been able to replicate their wild conditions very well in order to get them to reproduce their natural pattern of hibernation.