Endangered lemurs get Fawlty name

BBC NEWS: "Known for his work in highlighting their plight, comedian John Cleese has now had a new species of lemur named after him. The avahi cleesei was discovered in western Madagascar in 1990 by a team of scientists from Zurich University. Now the researchers have named the primate - which weighs less than a kilo - after the Monty Python star. Lemurs are considered the most endangered of all primates and live only on Madagascar. The island has evolved in isolation for 165 million years."