TO THE ISLAND OF THE AYE-AYE DVD

A companion to Himself and Other Animals code 91984 we have a 51 minute colour and black and white film on DVD. Bridges that nearly collapsed as they were crossed, 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. Bargain price.