PLANET EARTH Jungles

The fungus is so virulent（剧毒的）, it can wipe out（彻底消灭） whole colonies of ants and it's not just ants that fall victim to this killer. There are literally thousands of different types of cordyceps fungi and remarkably, each specializes on just one species but these attacks do have a positive effect on the jungle's diversity. Since parasites like these stop any one group of animal getting the upper hand. The more numerous a species becomes, the more likely it'll be attacked by its nemesis, a cordyceps fungus.
With so much competition, jungles have become the home of the specialist. Now this animal, in the island of Borneo, is one of the most unusual. It's a colugo（猫猴）, or flying lemur（狐猴）, though this is something of a misnomer（使用不当的名字） as it doesn't actually fly and it certainly isn't a lemur, in fact nobody's quite sure who its closest relative is.



The colugo depends on a diet of young leaves and to find enough of them, it must move from tree to tree. The leaves are not very nutritious, but then, getting around doesn't use much energy. In a single night, a colugo might have to travel as far as two miles but that task is made easier by its superior gliding skills.