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New Lemur Species Named After John Cleese
FruFox writes "A new species of wooly lemur has been named in honour of John Cleese in recognition of his work to protect lemurs in general. According to the article, the lemurs don't walk, per se, but have known to do some very silly walks. Good show." From the article: "The avahi cleesei, which weights less than two pounds and eats leaves, was discovered in Western Madagascar in 1990 by a team led by anthropologist Urs Thalmann and his colleague Thomas Geissman of Zurich University."
In fact, if you go to his site, the first thing you are invited to do is "click on the lemur".
Should read:
"...the lemurs don't walk, per se, but have known to do some very silly jumps."
FYI, his real name is John Cheese, he adopted the professional name John Cleese.
No. His father changed his family name from Cheese to Cleese in 1915, and so it already had been changed when John was born in 1939.
The extinction of the giant lemur (which happened about 2,000 years ago) had nothing to do with "ignorance and superstition". Apparently they were good eatin'. Even now "ignorance and superstition" has contributed nothing to their plight except for their names. Population pressures and concomitant habitat destruction are more the problem.
And the brethren went away edified.
http://www.smm.org/buzz/node/2678 192005.asp. aspu rs/e ydaynews_archive.html
http://www.weeklyreader.com/featurezone/article_0
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050813/fob3
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/11/14/new.lem
http://monkeydaynews.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_monk
it's the naming that is news, not the discovery.
"Llama" was once misspelled in an edition of The Daily Llama, the official Monty Python newsletter. How very peculiar.
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