Rafsanjan Abbey Tatya
28 December 2007
Kampala — NOW that the festive season is on and everyone is seeking real fine entertainment.
Good T.V. programming often ranks high on the priority list of those who are looking to have a real good time during the festive season.
And now here is the good news!From the Multi-choice office in Uganda, "There is a whole load of entertainment on DStv from movies to food, music, science, religion and so much more!."
However, one of the channels that you might want to lookout for is the Animal Planet, channel 264.
The reason is simply because the channel will be showing a groundbreaking animal series titled, Lemure Street.
THE LEMURE: Found only in Madagascar and now on DStv.
You better tune in this month as the Animal Planet series, Lemure Street, chronicles the complex social system that governs two lemur colonies on the island of Madagascar.
The series premieres from Sunday January 13 2008 at 8 p.m.
The new 13-part series focuses on two rival groups - the Tornado Troop and the Graveyard Gang - who live in neighbouring territories and engage in battles to defend their patch and their mating rights.
The series will show different things. For instance, as the mating season sets in these two rival gangs are more tense than usual and with the troops living in close proximity, trouble is never far away. Territories are fiercely protected, mating rights passionately defended and with predators to watch out for and the young to bring up there's never a dull day.
Infighting and bullying in the bid for dominance is frequent as roving opportunistic males attempt to join the different troops. Whilst babies and juveniles cause havoc, the constant threat of snakes and hawks are always present.
"Subsequently this series is packed with drama, revealing as never seen before to DStv audiences, the trials and tribulations of Madagascar's most charismatic inhabitant," reads part of the Multi-choice press statement, "What DStv audiences will find especially fascinating is that the day-to-day fabric of their lives runs strangely parallel to those of our own world. Their body language and facial gestures are fascinating - and eerily human."
Madagascar's lemurs display a range of interesting behaviours from singing like a whale to extracting insects from tree bark using a long twig-shaped finger.
Another interesting fact that the LEMUR STREET will reveal to DStv audiences is that each individual within the troop knows his or her place on the social ladder. In this complex society, the lemurs have developed a sophisticated language, and they chatter away to one another almost continuously.
Lemurs, which are also known as ring-tailed Madagascan monkeys, are found naturally nowhere else on earth but on the island. And so that makes it a big reason why you should await the series.
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