Primate expert and president of Conservation International, Russ Mittermeier, first spotted the lemur during an expedition in 1995, but has confirmed its existence whilst filming the documentary this year, when he and his colleagues captured and took blood samples from the small primate before returning it to its forest home.
via news.bbc.co.uk
Although I don't expect to find any new species of lemur, I will be hunting for some rare chameleons when I next visit Madagascar in January 2011!
