A red-fronted lemur chews on a millipede to make it secrete toxins Louise Peckre
Lemurs have been spotted chewing on toxic millipedes then rubbing the leggy critters all over their genitals and anuses. The bizarre behaviour may be a way to combat parasites that would otherwise set up home in the lemurs’ guts.
In November 2016, of the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen, Germany was observing red-fronted lemurs () in a forest in central Madagascar. The first heavy rains had just arrived, prompting many millipedes to emerge from underground.
Peckre watched as an adult…
