Laurie Kalligher, age 11, of Duluth,Minn., for her question:     

WHERE DO LEMURS LIVE?

Some 65 million years ago the lemurs could be found in many regions around the world. Then 40 million years ago they began to disappear from Europe and America. Nowadays the remaining lemurs live on Madagascar and a few other neighboring islands in the Indian Ocean.

These small monkey like animals are tree dwellers that enjoy a warm climate the entire year. They have soft, silken coats of fur and their big, bright eyes are vague and dreamy. Their daylight hours are spent sleeping. But at night they come forth making ghostly Halloween noises as they leap from shadow to shadow while foraging for fruit, nuts, insects and perhaps birds' eggs.