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Madagascar. The World of the Lemurs (Documentary Part 8)

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Channel: Planet Doc Full Documentaries · 2015 · Film & Animation

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Madagascar is an island located in the Indian Ocean inhabited by only creatures whose origin is still unknown. Lemurs are the most representative animals of Madagascar.
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Of all the present-day lemurs none is as strange and mysterious as the aye-aye. They form a separate family with a single species and their morphology and habits set them apart from all other pro-simians. 
It is the largest nocturnal lemur and the last living examples hide in the different types of jungle of Madagascar. It has a strange appearance, and its nocturnal habits have inspired superstitions among native Madagascans. For some, they are the reincarnation of ancestral spirits and bring good luck, but for many others they are an evil omen, and immediately kill them; an unjust punishment for the crime of simply being different from all the other creatures of the forest. 
A long, fleshless middle finger helps it to extract the pulp from the canes and the larvae from the trunks where it feeds. No other lemur has such a tool and no other has teeth which continue to grow, more like those of a rodent than a pro-simian. 

Today, the aye-aye, probably the strangest animal in the world, is in danger of extinction. Like the rest of the lemurs and all the other animals of this independent world, it is being deprived of the exclusive habitats that made it the way it is, determined its evolution and have kept it alive to this day. And the reason is another mammal with which it shares distant ancestors, those small beings of the jungles of Gondwana. Its arrival brought cataclysmic changes. And dark shadows fell over the extraordinary children of Lemuria.
The action of man is devastating the wildlife of Madagascar. In the first thousand years of human presence on the island two dozen species of large animals were destroyed, including fifteen species of lemurs.  Since the appearance of man in Madagascar, 80% of the original vegetation cover has disappeared. And in just the second half of the twentieth century 50% of the jungles that cover this country have been cut down. And while its ecosystems are being razed and burnt, Madagascar continues to astonish the scientific community, which each year discovers new species.

These bamboo lemurs, the smallest of all diurnal lemurs, are an example of the critical situation of the exclusive animals of the island. Madagascar is terribly fragile. 
Humanity anxiously looks to the infinite solitude of the universe dreaming of other inhabited worlds. And, paradoxically, an entire world of fascinating, unknown creatures is disappearing before our very eyes, taking with it the secret of the origin of those mysterious children of the legendary Lemuria.

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