Discover a tiny gibbon

Two biologists, Urs Thalmann and Thomas Geissmann, of the Swiss University, found that Madagascar was a tiny gibbon on the island.

The two scientists said the new gibbon could only be found in Tsingy de Bermarraha region in western Madagascar. These gibbons weigh only about 1kg, and live in small flocks, eating only leaves and roots. They often eat at night.

They took the name of the movie actor John Cleese for this type of gibbon to honor genocidal animal protection works (known as John Cleese is a member of the famous "monty Python comedy" in the UK and is the one who actively protects animals, especially the Lemure gibbons that were filmed into a documentary "Operation Lemure").

Lamure gibbon

In fact, these small apes have been discovered by the Swiss research team since 1990.

They then returned to the mainland and after several years of conducting research at museums around the world, to compare the shape and coat and the characteristics of the ape with the apes found from before. The researchers agreed that this is a newly discovered gibbon.

Subsequent expeditions to learn more about this type of gibbon were impossible because of the difficulties encountered by the research team such as illness, lack of budget as well as lack of technical means and conditions. about security and politics on Madagascar island.

Species classified as primates and Lemure species, although they are mammals, are found only on Madagascar, but are also classified into this category. And now these Lemure gibbons are in danger of extinction due to the logging of deforestation that makes small animals no longer live.