Hey, primates, meet the colugos—two little-known species of small rain forest mammals now presented as your next of kin.
NEARLY PRIMATE. Possibly one of the two living species closest to primates, a Malaysian colugo mother shelters a youngster. A colugo leaping off a tree (inset) snaps open a membrane for prodigious gliding powers.
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