Animal Instinct

On today’s episode of Animal Instinct, guest Dr. Patricia C. Wright talks about her work studying wild lemurs in Madagascar. Dr. Wright is a Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University, NY, and a founder of the Centre ValBio Research Station in Madagascar, a “green” sustainable hub of research, environmental arts, village community health, education and economics. She has discovered a new species of lemur, spearheaded a national park World Heritage Site, won three medals of honor from the Malagasy government, been awarded the Indianapolis Prize for Animal Conservation (“Nobel Prize” for conservation), received a MacArthur Genius Award. Her work is featured in the IMAX film “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar” and Anthony Bourdain’s CCN TV show Parts Unknown. Her most recent books are “High Moon Over the Amazon” and “For the Love of Lemurs: my life in the wilds of Madagascar. As the first animals to arrive in Madagascar, lemurs play an important role in dispersing seeds and pollinating flowers, making them ind