IT DOES not have a particularly silly walk, but the newly discovered lemur species shares its name with the famous lanky actor who was Monty Python’s Minister for Silly Walks.
Named Avahi cleesei, the woolly lemur weighs less than a kilogram and eats leaves. Its long legs are the only physical attribute it shares with John Cleese, says Urs Thalmann of the University of Zurich in Switzerland. “Woolly lemurs can’t really walk – but they do enjoy silly jumps,” he adds.
Thalmann and colleague Thomas Geissman discovered the new species in the remote Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve in central western Madagascar.…
