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Saving Lemurs By Sampling Their Calls

An unlikely partnership between a New York beatboxer and a primatologist

Ben Mirin is a beatbox musician from Brooklyn in New York. He's also a keen birdwatcher and combines his two passions by using the sounds of the natural world in his beatboxing. A chance encounter with Professor Patricia Wright who has spent her life studying the endangered lemurs of Madagascar lead to an unlikely partnership.

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