| Memetic Rick Semi-regular ramblings from a Los Angeles transplant, science geek, and home-brewer all rolled into one guy. |
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| Memetic Rick Semi-regular ramblings from a Los Angeles transplant, science geek, and home-brewer all rolled into one guy. |
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Second only to the glorious rhinoceros in my heart is the lemur. My affection for this group of lower primates mostly stems from my decision to include them in my Grand Unfinished Novel, where the alien representative from the 5th dimension prefers to take the form of a Coquerel's Sifaka on Earth. But, I digress...
I flipped through an August issue of Science News in the lab breakroom during lunch, and found mention of the discovery of two new lemur species. Microcebus lehilahytsara is the little bugger pictured. Mirza zaza, no doubt pouting somewhere that his photo wasn't included in any of the (brief) searches I did for more info online, even has the better story. M. zaza was once lumped in with a different species of lemur, until researchers noticed behavioural differences in the wild and confirmed the distinction with genotyping.
I wonder what it must be like working for the Primate Report journal...
Geez, didn't mean to be silent here for a month...
I've been working too hard, and especially in the last week, losing my mind at the complete and total failure of our government to respond to a predicted natural disaster. Jen has done a better job of speaking for both of us.
It's all very sickening.