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Synopsis: Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman narrates Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, the incredible true story of nature's greatest explorers - lemurs. Captured with IMAX 3D cameras, the film takes audiences on a spectacular journey to the remote and wondrous world of Madagascar. Lemurs arrived in Madagascar as castaways millions of years ago and evolved into hundreds of diverse species but are now highly endangered. Join trailblazing scientist Patricia Wright on her lifelong mission to help these strange and adorable creatures survive in the modern world. Directed by David Douglas and written and produced by Drew Fellman, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar is a presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX Entertainment.
Director(s): David Douglas
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
G
Year:
2014
39 min
$10,675,739
Website
498 Views


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.

To these mouse lemurs,

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

and frogs across the galaxy.

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.

The greater bamboo lemur

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

and they still amaze me.

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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