As lemurs go, so goes the island's ecosystem

The Boston Globe | August 12, 1991| | Copyright

Two years ago, after weeks of searching in the malarial rain forest of northeast Madagascar, German primatologist Bernhard Meier found the hairy-eared dwarf lemur in a hole in a tree.

Allocebus trichotis, just three ounces in weight and five inches long (not including the tail), is the last surviving species of what had been an entire genus, or sub-group, of lemurs. The lemur had been presumed extinct, but Meier set out to find it because an old man in a village nearby told him it still lived.

As exhilirating as was the rediscovery in 1989, it came with a caveat: The future of Allocebus is ...

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