those numbers are not good let's bring in christophe spencer now he is in the primate specialist group at the international union for the conservation of nature he is a specialist in this it's good to have you on the program just how close are we to losing these species of lemur. yet we are indeed very close to losing salty species i wouldn't run into any of them off to you have the ability to bounce back even from very low numbers but the rarest of all the limos pieces which is the north and sports safely nocturnal little species of about 6700 grams of all the weight is now down to just under 100 individual limas in the wild when you think about them that's not very many at all so there are a couple of villages here go out lima hunting on any noise such as. that may actually will be it for that's feces so that's really very i'm i'm scarily clever use to extinction of this doing a bit but in the next one probably has about 400 individuals left on the walls and so on really that will let me ask you about you said you have some villagers going hunting for lemurs is is the status of lemur