Newly described species, Goodman's mouse lemur, Microcebus lehilahytsara.
is is a new species of Lemur that they've identified in Madagascar. They named it after Steve Goodman. The scientists say; Lehilahytsara means "good man" in Malagasy. The German primatologists chose this name to honor Steve Goodman, scientist with The Field Museum in Chicago and WWF in Madagascar. "Goodman's field research in all remote parts of Madagascar has contributed enormously to our knowledge about the diversity of Madagascar's unique and threatened fauna and flora," Kappeler says.
"It is truly an honor to have such an animal named after me," Goodman says, "but this is really a joint tribute to all of the scientists and students who have taken part in our multidisciplinary surveys over the past 16 years."
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world whether we like it or not: we have a choice to either preserve these species or to destroy them in search of short-term monetary gains. But if we decide to destroy these other life forms, the least we can do is to know what we are destroying by learning that they exist. If you have a high-resolution digitized nature image (I prefer JPG format) that you'd like to share with your fellow readers, feel free to email it to me, along with information about the image and how you'd like it to be credited.
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Comments
Very cute.
There seem to have been a few new large animal species identified this year.
Hopefully we'll manage to stop destroying the world so they survive, if only so our descendants don't exist in a denuded world.
Posted by: Chris' Wills | May 2, 2007 3:14 PM
It is very cute photo (and a nice compliment to Mr. Goodman).
I note that the caption's last sentence seems to have wandered in from another article -- not only does it give a different species name, but the description indicates a much larger animal than is shown.
Posted by: David Harmon | May 3, 2007 1:16 PM