Heading into the jungles of Madagascar in search of the world's rarest lemur—the greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus)—was a gamble that paid off, said Damian Aspinall of The Aspinall Foundation. An expedition of scientists from the foundation,Conservation International (CI), Association Mitsinjo, and GERP (Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche sur les Primates de Madagascar) searched hundreds of miles of Madagascar forests and found evidence that the bamboo lemur lives in at least 11 sites not previously known to science.

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