Mouse lemur (IMAGE)

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Mouse lemur

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Brown Mouse Lemur, one of the 104 species of lemurs that are currently threatened with extinction. A total of 17 species of lemurs have gone extinct since humans arrived on Madagascar.

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© Chien C. Lee

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