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October 05, 2003

Great Leaping Lemurs

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Madagascar's tourism industry is counting on a lemur-led recovery.

Words and pics by Roderick Eime

When the vast island continent of Madagascar wrenched itself free from the mighty Gondwanaland tens of millions of years ago, it took with it a veritable Noah's Ark of plant and animal species, and established itself as a unique ecosystem that remains so to this day. But only just.