"...Cleese, who played a lemur-happy zookeeper in the 1997 film Fierce Creatures and hosted 1998 documentary Born to Be Wild: Operation Lemur with John Cleese, the comic now has a new species of the primate named after him.
Researches at Zurich University have dubbed a tiny, leaf-loving lemur in Madagascar the avahi cleesei..."
17 November 2005
SCIENTISTS MAKE A MONKEY OUT OF CLEESE
