The family of the world’s smallest primate just got a little bigger. U.S. and Malagasy primatologists have discovered a new species of mouse lemur, an arboreal, fist-size animal on the African island of Madagascar, the home of all lemurs.
POCKET PRIMATE. A member of a newly described species of mouse lemur, Microcebus lehilahytsara, eyes the world from a zookeeper’s hand.
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