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[ musical flourish ]

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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by ring-tailed lemurs.

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It looks like someone liked them and decided to put a ring on it. [three lemurs dancing]

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Yeah. [ chuckles ]

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All right, check out the following passage.

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[ mumbles ]

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All right. According to the passage,

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the ring-tailed lemur, uh... what?

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And here are the potential answers,

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mumbled in lemur.

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[ animalistic noises ]

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We can send answer C back to the school, [students working on computer]

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because, uh, well, the passage tells us that

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ring-tailed lemurs have smaller brain-to-body size ratios

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than gorillas, but doesn't

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tell us about other lemurs.

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Not to toot our own horns, but we know a good

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place to get help with that. [ clears throat ] Yeah.

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We can eliminate answers D and A,

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because the passage doesn't tell us [two lemurs watching a video on the computer]

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anything about the sizes of other lemurs

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or how common ring-tailed lemurs are.

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We can tell you that we're hoping

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for an adorable invasion of giant lemurs...

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Someday... We can dream. [a giant lemur walking in the city]

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All right, well, that means answer B is our correct one.

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Ring-tailed lemurs are the most

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widely recognized species of lemur.

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That's good news when it comes to getting treats from tourists,

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but, uh, bad news when everyone at the primate family

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reunion, uh, tells your mom about it. [a lemur wearing a golden hair wig]

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[ animal noise ]

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