Since mouse lemurs made our blog a couple times last year, and that one of our readers recently commented on how she was doing a report on them, I figured you may want to see photo of a newly described species of mouse lemur: Goodman’s mouse lemur, Microcebus lehilahytsara.
Check out a photo of one [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Lemur’
May 2, 2007
A new mouse lemur: Goodman’s mouse lemur, Microcebus lehilahytsara
April 20, 2007
Keeping track of Primate Conservation
A new public database has been released that overviews the status of endangered and almost extinct animals. I feel like it is a critical and timely resource, especially in regards to primate conservation efforts.
The project is called EDGE, and currently lemurs are at the top of the most critically endangered primates on that list, and [...]
February 8, 2007
Wanna save lemurs? Give them their food and ecosystem back!
Right on the heals of yesterday’s report about the imminence of orang-utan habitat destruction, comes a similar report about the future of lemurs, the destruction of their habitat, and what we can do about it all. Lemur are a primitive primate, and are distinct from anthropoids. So they are classified as prosimians. Oh yes, there [...]
June 28, 2006
More on the Mouse Lemurs (Microcebus) of Eastern Madagascar
I’ve tracked down the paper published in April of 2006, in the journal International Journal of Primatology, on the discovery of the three new species of mouse lemur from Madagascar. The paper is titled, “Revision of the Mouse Lemurs (Microcebus) of Eastern Madagascar” from Edward E. Louis, et al. The abstract reads,
“Phylogenetic analysis of ca. [...]
June 27, 2006
Three new species of Lemur discovered in Madagascar
Lemur are primates that inhabit Madagascar, and three new species of them have been anounced despite the fact that they were located in the eastern rain forests in 2001. They are all mouse sized primates and have all gotten the genus Microcebus to describe their small bodies.
One of the species have been named, Microcebus mittermeieri, [...]
