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However, for those with cryptozoological beliefs about what lurks in the wilderness, either today or in the distant past, there is a singular unique feature of the Fossa's behavior that perhaps marks it off as a specialized primate hunter, one that has been able to dominate a entire closed-off branch of humanity's family tree; the Fossa is a cathemeral creature, where individuals in the species do not have set sleep schedules, and is neither nocturnal or diurnal. There is no safe time to be a lemur in Madagascar, as the primary hunter of lemurs is as likely to be encountered in the day as it is at night, and by the nature of the Fossa's roaming tendencies individuals can be found in almost all parts of Madagascar besides the interior (that humans are aware of, anyhow). The Lemur as a branch of the primate family can only be defined as a captive population which has no defense against this creature, and no species possesses the instincts or social structures to effectively combat against it when they are encountered. A sleeping lemur is as likely to be preyed upon as a awake lemur, and lemurs have collectively evolved accordingly. It is impossible to know what the lemurs, as a group, would be if the Fossa was not a presence in the islands, as the two cannot be easily separated. The native peoples of Madagascar, perhaps not coincidently, believe that the Fossa has the capacity to prey on small children; there is no reason to not believe that this has occurred in the historical record.