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9-5-2009 10:09 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6bb8c361-59f6-4922-be50-59cb45b46b1c/B3E5F02A-17B7-4C94-90D0-C10A50C47D9F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2009/08/colugo-fliers.html" href="http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2009/08/colugo-fliers.html" style="font-size: 11px;">uglyoverload.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2009/08/colugo-fliers.html"><DIV><DIV>
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<A href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LbccUVbSRd8/SqEMtpSH1kI/AAAAAAAAFBA/cGjkVrZh5F0/s1600-h/Flying+Squirrel.jpg"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377593408372594242" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LbccUVbSRd8/SqEMtpSH1kI/AAAAAAAAFBA/cGjkVrZh5F0/s400/Flying+Squirrel.jpg" /></A>No, no, this isn't a flying squirrel. It's a flying lemur. But it isn't a lemur either. It's a <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colugo">colugo</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2009/08/colugo-fliers.html"><DIV>Native to southeast Asia, these nocturnal creatures make for amazing fliers, capable of gliding upwards of 230 feet from one tree to the next.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2009/08/colugo-fliers.html"><DIV>The colugo might be able to pass for cute, as long as those flaps aren't engaged. But when fully deployed it's hard to see anything else but those expanses of fleshy membranes. And fleshy membranes aren't cute.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2009/08/colugo-fliers.html"><DIV>See that little baby colugo clinging to mommy's belly? Now, <SPAN>that </SPAN>is cute. Down right adorable. It takes about 2-3 years for colugolings to mature. Sad is the day when mommy has to tell the growing colugo, "Honey, I'm sorry. But you're just to big to fly. Mommy can't carry you anymore"</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B3E5F02A-17B7-4C94-90D0-C10A50C47D9F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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