Active during the dawn and dusk hours, these furry guys presumably spend the rest of the time sleeping or watching their favorite soap operas.  They are native to Eastern Madagascar and live on a diet of fruit, leaves, flowers, cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizza (just kidding about the leaves!).  RR Lemur couples mate for life and live in groups of 2-5, consisting usually of the mated pair and their offspring.  They are an endangered species.

Known as a "Living Fossil", having changed little in the past 30 million years,  these fellows are among the smallest of the hoofed mammals. They are only 2- 2.5 ft. tall and their legs are about the diameter of a pencil.  Inhabiting the overgrown forests and bush areas of the Malay peninsula and parts of Indonesia, they live on a diet of fallen fruit, grasses, buds and occasional insects.  Like some of my In-Laws,  the female spends its' entire life pregnant with a gestation period of about 150 days and breeding again within hours of giving birth.

Named "Little Dogs" because of their Bark-like warning calls by the early French Settlers (and who wouldn't be alarmed by the arrival of hordes of Frenchmen carrying cloves of garlic and long breads tucked under their arms......can you say "Prairie Dog Croissant"?), these critters are rodents related to squirrels.  They eat plants and grasses and live in burrows called towns.  The largest recorded Prairie Dog town was located in Texas (yes, everything is bigger in Texas!) and was 100 miles wide and 250 miles long and was estimated to contain about 400 million of the little buggers.