A group of bulgy-eyed primates known as lemurs (pronounced LEE-mer, from New Latin for "ghosts") consists of almost 50 species, entirely confined to the African island nation of Madagascar and the nearby Comoros islands.  Lemurs are generally arboreal and nocturnal--meaning they live in trees and come out at night.  They have large, round eyes that incorporate a light-reflecting crystalline layer, optimizing night vision, as well as spindly hands with rounded fingertips (much like E.T.) and long, bushy tails, both essential for being a master of the canopy.
Lemur info and pictures (and even sounds) here, here, here, here, and here.

Today German primatologists will present their discovery of two new lemur species at the Congress of the European Federation for Primatology in Göttingen, Germany.  After studying an existing species of lemur, the giant mouse lemur, Mirza coquereli, the primatologists concluded that a northern population and a western population (of north and west Madagascar, that is) were genetically distinct enough to deserve their own names.  The western group retained its original name and the northern group is now a new species, Mirza zaza.
The second lemur discovery came as scientists collected living specimens from Andasibe, a popular tourist destination in the eastern rainforest and one of the most studied forests in the world.  So it came a surprise when this little guy was found to be genetically unique from his surrounding lemur cousins.  His new name is Microcebus lehilahytsara.  The discoveries officially raise the number of lemur species from 47 to 49.


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