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# How to pronounce "mouse lemur" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/mæʊsɛlɛmʌr/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **mou·se·le·mur**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (11 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "mouse lemur" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "So what we did is we just kind of did a shotgun approach to see what kind of vomeronasal receptor genes were present in lemurs, and particularly mouse lemurs. Here's a dwarf lemur and a mouse lemur."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 31:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSDGg3hTao&t=1909s)

### Example 2
> "And we are almost there with the mouse lemur."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 33:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSDGg3hTao&t=2034s)

### Example 3
> "means fewer and fewer lemur these researchers hardly ever spot Madame bat's mouse lemur the world's smallest primate Mame mous Madam B's mouse lemur can be found here along with the grey mouse lemur but can only be found here in this Forest its entire Global presence is within these few square"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg0F4H7vHcs&t=169s)

### Example 4
> "And you can see from this picture that kind of one mouse lemur looks like another."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 17:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSDGg3hTao&t=1024s)

### Example 5
> "And so here's just a random assemblage of six mouse lemur species."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 21:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSDGg3hTao&t=1298s)

### Example 6
> "And for a while there, every new mouse lemur species that came out, the press went wild."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSDGg3hTao&t=1178s)

### Example 7
> "Because who cares? Would a mouse lemur care that we can tell them apart, or do they care that they can tell themselves apart?"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 20:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSDGg3hTao&t=1222s)

### Example 8
> "they could plant Ma and peanuts despite the fact that the soil is not very fertile at all for conservationists it's a depressing situation the loss of forest means fewer and fewer lemur these researchers hardly ever spot Madame bat's mouse lemur the world's smallest primate Mame mous Madam B's mouse lemur can be found here along with the grey mouse lemur but can only be found here in this"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg0F4H7vHcs&t=158s)

### Example 9
> "So there's a German group led by Elke Zimmerman who has been looking very carefully at mouse lemur calls,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 22:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSDGg3hTao&t=1353s)

### Example 10
> "has shown that species diversity is actually very high, and is, in fact, the highest of all lemurs in the mouse lemur radiation."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 16:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSDGg3hTao&t=1016s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [mouse](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/mouse), [lemur](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lemur)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "mouse lemur" correctly?
"mouse lemur" is pronounced `/mæʊsɛlɛmʌr/`. Syllable breakdown: **mou·se·le·mur**.

### What does "mouse lemur" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "mouse lemur" in daily English.

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