
Bridges that nearly collapsed as they crossed and ancient ferries which ran a ‘sometime-this-week’ schedule, were just a couple of the problems which Gerald and Lee Durrell faced on their expedition in Madagascar.
They were looking for one of the world’s rarest creatures, the aye-aye. The plan was to set up a captive-breeding programme in a bid to save this strange species of lemur from following the dodo into extinction. After weeks of trekking through the rainforest without seeing any aye-aye the local witch-doctor was called in to help but first he had to talk to his ancestors.