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Awwww!!
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.
Researchers at Zurich University have dubbed a tiny, leaf-loving lemur in Madagascar the Avahi cleesei.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer man, if you ask me. (Thanks to Mark Evanier for the link.)
