Project Description: Investigators at the Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium (OHDZA) seek qualified and highly motivated volunteer research assistants to contribute to an on-going lemur monitoring program in
southeastern Madagascar in the second half of 2015 and again in 2016. Nine lemur species, several of which are critically endangered, are present in the remaining yet unprotected forest fragments, as is a rich variety of other endemics (birds, chameleons, tenrecs, etc.). The monitoring effort is led by OHDZA and its partner, the Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership (MBP; a Malagasy nongovernmental organization), and project involves following social groups of two Critically Endangered lemur species: the greater bamboo lemurs (Prolemur simus) or the black-and-white ruffed le