Island of Lemurs: Madagascar Page #2
on the edge of Ranomafana National Park.
Home to 15 kinds of lemurs.
It's here that she's training a new generation
of Western and Malagasy scientists...
...to build a future for the lemurs.
Almost all the plants and
animals in Madagascar are endemic...
...and exist nowhere else on Earth.
The more we learn
about their intricate relationships...
...the more we can do to protect
the forest and eventually to expand it.
To the lemurs, all this science
can seem awfully mysterious.
Each night, Herman and Victor
set traps in the forest around ValBio...
...to catch the smallest
primate in the world.
it's like being abducted by aliens.
They're taken to a strange laboratory
and scanned, probed...
...and analyzed by giant creatures.
They may be small,
but mouse lemurs are fierce predators...
...that strike terror into insects
After a few hours,
the mouse lemurs are released...
...and head home to their nests
with an out of this world story to tell.
I'm happiest when I'm
alone in the forest with lemurs.
Lemurs have a very calm presence.
has a special place in my heart.
They're not the most famous lemur,
and they're not the most beautiful...
...but they have this mischievous charm
that I just fell in love with.
There were once millions of them,
but now they're extremely endangered.
These two are the only ones
living in a protected forest.
This father and his daughter have been all
alone for two years since mom disappeared.
For the species to survive,
I have to help this family now.
They need new mates from outside the park.
And I'll have to play lemur matchmaker.
All over Madagascar,
the country's own scientists...
...are also working hard
to protect the lemurs.
Dr. Hanta Rasamimanana
works in the spiny forest.
A bizarre habitat of euphorbias
and prickly cactus-like trees.
She's a census taker,
on the lookout for her favorite lemur...
...the sifaka.
Sifaka are so curious.
When they see me taking notes,
they come down to study me.
It's like they are the primatologists.
Sifaka don't drink water.
They get all the moisture
they need from fruits...
...and the little leaves
between the spines of plants.
I've followed them for 20 years
I teach my students that lemurs
are Madagascar's living treasure.
But what's most amazing about the sifaka...
...is how they dance.
After months of searching...
...Patricia's team finally found
a new group of greater bamboo lemurs...
...to provide mates for the family
in the national park.
Their habitat is
awful, I mean, very degraded.
I am so relieved. I'm really relieved.
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