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Ademas, se asistio a entrenamientos de los grupos Sifakas, Team Motion y Wild Street, en el periodo de marzo a julio del 2017.

But she added: "More than 80% of the forests have disappeared since the 1950s, leaving sifakas and other irreplaceable species in danger of extinction.

To locals, lemurs called silky sifakas (shee-FAH-kuhs) are known as the "ghosts of the forest." The bone-white animals live in Madagascar, an island off the coast of Africa (see map, p.

Sifakas - The Marojejy Massif is the last sanctuary of one of Madagascar's rarest lemurs, the elusive, ghostly-white silky sifaka.

The nonhuman primate data were based on long-term observations of 700 adult females, including capuchins in Costa Rica, muriqui monkeys in Brazil, baboons and blue monkeys in Kenya, chimpanzees in Tanzania, gorillas in Rwanda and sifakas in Madagascar.

LEAP OF FAITH Heinrich van den Berg jumped at chance to photograph Verreaux's sifakas in Madagascar

The sifakas are social animals, usually living in groups of three to ten.

Madagascar (8.00pm) David Attenborough observes the wildlife of the narrow band of mountains and rainforest on the island's east coast, from ring-tailed lemurs living on an inhospitable peak, to forest-dwelling sifakas, small primates on the verge of extinction.

The photographers' mission may have been unusual, but their passion for sifakas is shared by others-even some Madagascar natives who might just as easily consider the charismatic animals a source of much-needed protein.

These include endangered sifakas, tiny pygmy marmosets that weigh about as much as an apple and the orang-utans of Borneo, which copy humans, like to wash with soap and muck about in boats.