Some little boys brought Rachel a mouse lemur that they had found in a clove tree. She was thrilled to see the tiny lemur and even get to touch it. Then she suddenly realized that they should NOT have taken the little one away from his habitat, so she made them promise to bring him right back to the same tree.

The good news, apparently, is that the mouse lemur was using a clove tree–not primary forest, but planted by humans–as a habitation.

[There is a fascinating program on US TV with NOVA right now. The subject is crocodiles in the Northwest of Madagascar, but there is an amazing segment on the aye-aye, a small lemur that Rachel has mentioned.]