“Of all the world’s animals living on the verge of extinction, Madagascar’s lemurs are teetering closest to the brink. A new assessment of these primates reveals they are probably the most endangered group of vertebrates on Earth, beating out all other mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and bony fish for the dismal distinction.
Ninety-one percent of the 103 known lemur species are threatened, conservationists concluded this week at a workshop of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission in Antanarivo, Madagascar’s capital. Twenty-three of the species are now considered “critically endangered,” 52 are “endangered,” and 19 are “vulnerable” on the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species, compared to 10 percent, 21 percent and 17 percent, respectively, at the time of the previous assessment carried out in 2005.” (read more)
This makes me a horribly sad lemurface. 3:
Though the researchers only marked lice that were living on lemurs’ ears, they usually found these same lice later living on a host’s testes.
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Adorable Lemur’s Sordid Nightlife Revealed by Lice (via outofcontextscience) … kinky. :P |
Baby Lemur Discovers Rope (by marsellek) — Were you this acrobatic when you were a few months old?
MY BRAIN IS FULL OF SQUEE
