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Silky Sifakas: The Angels of the Forest
For the first time ever, filmmakers have caught these elusive white lemurs of Madagascar on tape. Full Documentary: Angels of the Forest: Silky Sifaka Lemurs of Madagascar (03:26)
Courtesy of: Sharon Pieczenik
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Saving the Silky Sifaka
In Madagascar, an American researcher races to protect one of the world's rarest mammals, a white lemur known as the silky sifaka
April 2010 |
By Erica R. Hendry
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Comments (7)
there so cute
Posted by breanna mcduff on September 2,2010 | 02:22 PM
Thank you for all of your kind comments. If you are interested, the entire half hour video can be seen at http://vimeo.com/5894853.
Also, please check out Erik Patel's website at http://erikpatel.com/ for more information about silkies and what you can do to help save their survival.
Warmest Regards,
Sharon Pieczenik
Posted by Sharon Pieczenik on August 30,2010 | 09:11 PM
The Silky sifaka is a really amazing creature. I wish I could do something to help them from becoming extinct.
Posted by zoe albion on July 26,2010 | 07:42 PM
What a beautiful video about a beautiful animal! thanks for a job well done.
Posted by Charlotte Anderson on May 5,2010 | 12:14 AM
We cannot understand why these beautiful lil creatures are referred to as 'primitive' primates. I have had the tremendous good fortune to have hands-on personal, intimate contact with about 40 various Lemurs, here in the U.S.
There was a group of them at Cyprus Gardens theme park and I had quite a lot of contact with them.
Before Disney World shut-down Discovery Island [accessible through Fort Wilderness], I had many delightful one-on-one moments with the collection of Lemurs out there.
There is nothing primitive about these lil guys!
They are extremely intelligent, very gentle in nature, and have social structures that are truly amazing! They allowed me to interact with themselves without it apparently affecting their behaviour in any way. They were affectionate, responding to any atttention in the most endearing way. Upon my first contact with any Lemur, even a few that had virtually never been in any contact with a human, they would unabashedly approach me in a 'friendly' manner. I never met one of 'em that would not indicate it would rather be held in my arms than just sit on a limb and observe me.
And . . . . . . we humans will let them go extinct . . . . . . . We are killing our planet.
Posted by MuffNuzzler69 on March 29,2010 | 09:45 PM
Extremely well done. Beautiful footage and a fun flow to the piece. My favorite parts- the funny snuffing noises they make and the lemur moving its head and neck to the lighthearted music score.
Posted by Stephani Gordon on March 24,2010 | 04:16 PM
Beautiful film, great views of the lemurs. But my hat is really off to Mr Patel. There is no way to overstate how exhausting and challenging field research is. We are so in debt to him, Dr Wright and the other researchers, Malagasy and international, who are doing the hot, sweaty, dirty hard work for all of us. Thank you.
Posted by joan mckniff on March 17,2010 | 01:16 AM