Species. He called me into his office and he said,

Species.

You night, unite, unite.

Thank God.

He called me into his office and he said, you see that picture above my desk? I said,

yes and it kind of looked like an animal that reminded me of a squirrel actually.

He said, that is a lemur that we think is extinct in the wild.

If you can, please go to Madagascar

and find out if it's extinct or not. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask if you like today's episode and you have a spare minute

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the show.

This conversation is

is with Dr. Patricia is an anthropologist, a conservationist

and a professor at Stony Brook University in New York.

And she's probably the world's leading expert on Leymers.

Leymers only exist in one place, and that is the island of Madagascar.

Patricia spends about half her time six months a year

in Madagascar studying lemurs.

And she's done this since the 80s

when she discovered a new species of leymur and also established a national park.

It's almost an understatement to say that Patricia is a trailblazer.

She's done the impossible again and again. I'm Dr. Patricia Wright, distinguished professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University. I am so excited to be here at Stony Brook University.

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