Cleese's Woolly Lemur (Avahi cleesei) is a species of woolly lemur native to western Madagascar, named after John Cleese. The scientist who discovered the species named it after Cleese, star of Monty Python, mainly because of Cleese's fondness for lemurs, as shown in Operation Lemur With John Cleese and Fierce Creatures, and his efforts at protecting and preserving them. The species was first discovered in 1990 by a team of scientists from Zurich University, but wasn't formally described as a species until November 11, 2005. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria  Acoelomorpha  Orthonectida  Rhombozoa  Myxozoa  Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... Orders Subclass Multituberculata (extinct) Plagiaulacida Cimolodonta Subclass Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Subclass Triconodonta (extinct) Subclass Placentalia Afrosoricida Artiodactyla Carnivora Cetacea Chiroptera Cimolesta (extinct) Creodonta (extinct) Condylarthra (extinct) Dermoptera Desmostylia (extinct) Embrithopoda (extinct) Hyracoidea Insectivora Lagomorpha Litopterna (extinct) Macroscelidea Mesonychia (extinct) Notoungulata (extinct) Perissodactyla Pholidota Plesiadapiformes (extinct) Primates Proboscidea Rodentia Scandentia Sirenia Taeniodonta... Families 13, See classification A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans. ... Genera Indri Avahi Propithecus The Indridae (also spelled Indriidae) are a family of strepsirrhine primates. ... Species Avahi laniger Avahi occidentalis The woolly lemurs, also known as avahis or woolly inrdis, are two speecies of strepsirrhine primates. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... In biology, the most commonly used definition of species was first coined by Ernst Mayr. ... Type species Lemur laniger Gmelin, 1788 Species Avahi laniger Avahi occidentalis Avahi unicolor The woolly lemurs, also known as avahis or woolly indris, are three species of strepsirrhine primates. ... John Cleese as Q in Die Another Day. ... The Monty Python troupe in 1970. ... Superfamilies and Families Cheirogaleoidea Cheirogaleidae Lemuroidea Lemuridae Lepilemuridae Indridae Lemurs are part of a class of primates known as prosimians, and make up the infraorder Lemuriformes. ... Fierce Creatures is a 1997 comedy movie, John Cleese and companys follow-up to the widely popular A Fish Called Wanda. ... For the Temptations album, see 1990 (Temptations album) MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... The University of Zurich (in German: Universität Zürich) is the largest university of Switzerland. ... November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The diurnal animals weigh about 1 kilogram, have brown skin with white regions on the rear and inside of the thighs and have a short damp nose, large plate eyes, and ears which hardly stand out from the skin. They typically have a strictly vegetarian diet of leaves and buds, living together in small families. ...

The habitat is limited to the protected area Tsingy de Bemaraha in western Madagascar, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The animals are probably threatened with becoming extinct, since the size of the population is unknown so far and their habitat shrinks continuously. UNESCO logo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, is a specialized agency of the United Nations system established in 1945. ... World Heritage Site #86: Memphis and its Necropolis, including the Pyramids of Giza (Egypt). ... In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of species. ... The term habitat has a number of unrelated meanings: A concept in Ecology: see habitat. ...

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Cleese's Woolly Lemur

• BBC News report on the finding
• New Scientist article