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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."
any parrots named after him any time soon...
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Of course, no story even marginally associated with silly walks could avoid this page.
I can't believe how many webpages are dedicated to this episode.
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In fact, if you go to his site, the first thing you are invited to do is "click on the lemur".
A relative of the Norwegian Blue, I believe.
I wish to protest in the strongest possible terms about the news item which you have just poasted about the lemurs "walk silly". Some of my best friends are lemurs, and only a FEW of them are have silly walks.
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By an African swallow! You DO know that an African swallow toting coconuts and beating his wings at 43 times a second can EASILY transport a prosimian to distant islands. I'm reasonably sure I saw one in Manhattan just the other day.
Should read:
"...the lemurs don't walk, per se, but have known to do some very silly jumps."
"Miss? Excuse me. Miss?"
"Excuse me?"
"Oh sorry, I have a cold"
"Now look, I bought this parrot not half n' hour ago, and when I got it home, i discovered that it was stone dead"
"no its resting... lovely bird...beautiful plumage"
"Look! the plumage don't enter into it! its stone dead!"
"nah it pining for the fiords"
"For the fiords!? Look i took the liberty to examine that parrot, and the only reason it had been standing up on its perch in the first place was because it had been nailed there!"
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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.
What kind of cheese? Swiss? Cheddar? Muenster? Gouda? Edam? Havarti? Camembert? Bleu? Look this is a cheese shop right? Roquefort? St Jaques? etc.
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weights? maybe this is why people are paying more attention on digg.com
Gary Larson also received a similar, uh, honor.
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.
So, in, er, three years you've spotted no lemurs?
Yes in only three years. Er, I tell a lie, four; be fair, five. I've been lemur spotting for just the seven years. Before that of course I was a Yeti spotter.
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
After many hours of tough trekking through the jungle during which he had fallen, hurt himself and obtained a frighteningly bad mood, I believe he said that "Lemurs can go fuck themselves".
it's the naming that is news, not the discovery.
It should be Avahi cleesei. The genus name is always capitalized. Got the italics right, though.
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John Cleese does look a bit like a lemur after all...
There's a bald lemur?
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