Even though we have a space station orbiting our planet, and two satellites taking stereo pics of the sun, we still have a few things left to discover in our own back yard. A new species of Lemur was recently found in Madagascar.
“We were quite surprised by these findings. The Sahafina Forest is only 50km away from the Mantadia National Park in eastern Madagascar, which contains a different and much smaller species, the Goodman’s mouse lemur”, commented Prof. Radespiel. In contrast, the Gerp’s mouse lemur belongs to the group of larger mouse lemurs, i.e. has a body mass of about 68g, and is therefore almost “a giant” compared to the Goodman’s mouse lemur (ca. 44g body mass).
-Mike
Source: Physorg.com
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