Saving the Silky Sifaka

Saving the Silky Sifaka
By Erica R. Hendry
Photographs by Kevin Schafer
Smithsonian magazine, April 2010

In Madagascar, an American researcher races to protect one of the world's rarest mammals, a white lemur known as the silky sifaka

Clustered in the mountains of northeastern Madagascar, they are known locally as “ghosts of the forest,” because they seem to flash through the trees. To scientists, silky sifakas are known as one of the world’s rarest mammals.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Saving-the-Silky-Sifaka.html#ixzz0j7Z0RHPK
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