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New Lemur Species Named After John Cleese

Posted by Zonk on from the say-no-more dept.

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."

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  1. Lemurs the size of Mountain Gorillas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What's sad is that entire populations of lemurs have been completely wiped out in the past due to human ignorance and superstition. Some of the lemurs of the past were the size of mountain gorillas, and they now exist no more.

  2. And now for something completely different by Cave_Monster · · Score: 2, Interesting
    And now for something completely different, Slashdot editors proof reading the scoop ... The avahi cleesei, which weights less than two pounds

    weights? maybe this is why people are paying more attention on digg.com

  3. Not the first time... by TheLoneIguana · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Gary Larson also received a similar, uh, honor.

  4. Well, as long as we are picking nits... by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It should be Avahi cleesei. The genus name is always capitalized. Got the italics right, though.

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