Lemurs: primate species endemic to Madagascar, home to thirty species. Today, they are receding more and more in forests or elsewhere in the mountains, fleeing the proximity of humans. Let us denounce here in passing, the concerns of certain NGOs that under cover programs of preservations of the species threaten them directly.
By carrying the rings of the young lemurs, they disrupt their social organizations in the long term: the mothers abandon their children who have been in contact with the scientists, who are mostly composed of university trainees. And when natives hunt lemurs to identify them, they sometimes consume some of them. And this regularly.
We saw in Ramena, a lemur, in captivity in a very famous hotel: it stung in the plates and in the kitchen to the delight of the tourists. He died of obesity and diabetes, diseases of humans. In the Ranomafana forest, in 1989, I met a group of young scientists in bivouac, who were doing scouting, for the installation of the current American research center, already!
The guides explained that for a lemur caught and banded, they ate 2 or 3 and could even resell them because they are very much sought after by the vazahas who export them to "zoos" in Europe or the Comoros and elsewhere.
