"Typically pet lemurs develop aggressive traits toward people, and they do not know how to socialize with other lemurs," the lemur center's website says.
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The lemurs were born at the zoo on Feb. 21.
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Other wildlife includes squirrels, lizards, owls and even flying lemurs.
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Pieces of the puzzle started to come together, though, when she and her colleagues noticed, by analysing the lemurs' faeces, that times of peak millipede use coincided with threadworm infestations in the lemurs' guts.
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The zoo says there are only 88 similar lemurs in captivity.
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She saw six lemurs doing this and was left wondering, why?
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Lemurs — they're cute, but they're probably best kept in the wild.
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And Sauther and her colleagues witnessed the forest cats stalking lemurs.
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We're told 250 flamingos are going strong, as are 60 lemurs.
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He built a private zoo, stocked with lemurs, penguins and zebras.
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The center, now the Duke Lemur Center, studies and breeds rare and endangered primates — which over the years have included lemurs, tarsiers and lorises — and has reintroduced some of its lemurs to the wild in Madagascar.
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Lemurs' anal regions are furry and are rarely attacked by bloodsucking arthropods.
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The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga has plans to watch its lemurs carefully.
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Around 87 percent of Indriidae (larger lemurs) are similarly endangered or threatened.
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In Dr. Nevo's scent study, his team collected hundreds of ripe and unripe fruits from Ranomafana — about a third dispersed solely by visually challenged lemurs and the rest by other lemurs and the park's few visually gifted birds.
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Perhaps, before today, you didn't even know that creatures called mongoose lemurs existed.
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We can't even imagine what it'd be like to be covered in lemurs.
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Colour-blind lemurs all belong to the genus Eulemur, meaning they are closely related.
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That in turn could relieve pressure on endangered lemurs, which hunters target for bushmeat.
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Later, it was time to meet the other residents of the island: the lemurs.
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However, these markers can be difficult to track over time as lemurs mature and grow.
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"Lemurs live a long time – about 30 years – so it's a huge responsibility," she explains.
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"The population of crowned lemurs is dwindling due to habitat loss and poaching," Meek added.
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Among the attractions are bar-hopping lemurs (above) he brought in to save from extinction.
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In the hit animated film "Madagascar", the lemurs were known for throwing thumping dance parties.
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The zoo is also home to lemurs, kangaroos, and reindeer, among plenty of other creatures.
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There are about 90 different species of lemurs, all of which are native to Madagascar.
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Madagascar was once home to giant lemurs that could weigh as much as 350 pounds.
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Usually researchers rely on characteristics like injuries, scars, body size and shape to identify individual lemurs.
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The Philadelphia Zoo recently welcomed four baby lemurs and they had their big debut on Friday.
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Nan writes that lemurs are better than children because they don't talk back or ruin lives.
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Aye-ayes are elusive, nocturnal lemurs who are close to impossible to spot in the wild.
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The last time the zoo bred crowned lemurs was in 2016, according to the press release.
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They are joined, albeit with less extreme examples, by lemurs, bonobos, red colobus monkeys, and elephants.
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Guests can also take part in daily feedings of the resident lemurs, flamingos, giant tortoises and iguanas.
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But Ms Peckre's lemurs were not behaving in a way that suggested repelling insects was their purpose.
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Saturday, after maintenance workers arrived to find lemurs and Capuchin monkeys wandering free from their caged enclosures.
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In addition to the cassowaries, Hojas' emus, macaws, marmosets, lemurs and exotic livestock are up for sale.
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Lemurs share gut bacteria when they cuddle, according to a 2017 study by the University of Arizona.
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The zoo's pygmy hippos, tigers and lemurs were given their own jack-o-lanterns ahead of Halloween.
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"Leapin' Lemurs the #cuteanimaltweetoff is going strong," the Maryland Zoo wrote with a photo of a lemur.
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By comparison, using more stable facial markers for identification should make it easier to track lemurs over time.
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Ms Peckre therefore suspects that her lemurs are employing millipedes in lieu of a trip to the pharmacy.
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These Gollum-eyed lemurs like to skulk about in the forest getting liquored until the sun comes up.
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If you don't believe us, just check out this video of a BBC reporter getting mobbed by lemurs.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo has welcomed two new additions to its enclosures - twin baby ring-tailed lemurs.
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The lemurs proved to be quite the remarkable athletes, able to pull ten times their own body weight.
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Ring-tailed lemurs, which are native to Madagascar, typically live between 20 and 25 years, court documents said.
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Presumably this was one of the lemurs that Branson had brought over from Madagascar to save from extinction.
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Lemurs are my favorite animal, but the exhibit was closed for some reason, which really bummed me out.
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While each of her lemurs has "sort of distinct personalities," overall she finds them to be very calm creatures.
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Lemurs are among the most primitive members of the primate mammalian group that also includes monkeys, apes and humans.
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The largest general purpose CubeSat constellation — roughly 60 "Lemurs" operated by Spire Global — already monitors ships, planes and weather.
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"Every year in spring, the lemurs are among the first species to produce offspring," zoo director Dagmar Schratter said.
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They confirmed that fruits dispersed solely by lemurs produced more chemicals and a greater assortment of compounds upon ripening.
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"If something happened to those lemurs, those trees, at least in the wild, would become extinct," Mr. Drori said.
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Lemurs are unique to Madagascar, and they're considered to be one of the most endangered animals in the world.
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David Vala, the zoo&aposs chief primate curator, said Friday that three lemurs born April 22 have been doing well.
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Ring-tailed lemurs are on the list of endangered primates and are under threat partly due to illegal pet trade.
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Photo: Nati Harnik (AP)A leading theory of recent decades is that lemurs colonized Madagascar around 50 million years ago.
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During the Holocene, however, Madagascar was home to a bunch of oversized animals, including the giant lemurs and elephant birds.
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An elephant bird lolIllustration: DFoidl (Wikimedia Commons)Madagascar's history contains some truly enormous animals, from giant lemurs to giant tortoises.
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The same applies many langurs in Asia, lemurs in Madagascar, orangutans in Southeast Asia and gorillas and chimpanzees in Africa.
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Kirstie Alley's home can get a little wild sometimes – thanks to the 14 ring-tailed lemurs she keeps as pets.
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Perhaps it's no coincidence that other mammals that feature stable matrilineal communities — including lemurs and orcas — also exhibit great intelligence.
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They have been documented to cause the decline or extinction of parrots, penguins, iguanas, lizards, turtles, snakes, lemurs and bats.
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And in the wild, lemurs spent more time sniffing these same fruits with big differences in ripe versus unripe odors.
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The lemurs live in enclosures around the sea-level Beach House and tennis courts, and yes, you can pet them.
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And of arboreal folivores, such as koalas, and some lemurs and monkeys, sloths are the slowest and most metabolically lethargic.
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A biological anthropologist, Jacobs was studying how color vision evolved in lemurs, which meant keeping track of more than 100 animals.
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But there are many other similar cases including Darwin's finches on the Galapagos Islands, crickets on Hawaii and lemurs on Madagascar.
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The primates are a diverse order that include apes -- our closest biological relatives -- as well as monkeys, lemurs, lorises and tarsiers.
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Black-and-white ruffed lemurs get their name from the long thick fur that runs from their ears to their chin.
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Similar tools have been used in conservation efforts for bears and lemurs, and the technology is also being introduced into farms.
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And although Alley says her pet lemurs are totally safe and love being around people, she doesn't recommend them as pets.
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The crucial point was that unlike their primate cousins, monkeys and apes, which are mainly diurnal, lemurs come out at night.
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Both genders have an orange crown pattern on the top of their head, which is why they are called "crowned" lemurs.
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As we reported, Branson proudly assembled an awesome array of animals, including lemurs, flamingos, gigantic tortoises and exotic birds, among others.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Lemurs, monkeys and Komodo dragons enjoyed festive treats at London zoo on Thursday when keepers fed them Easter eggs.
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She captured her daughter showering with the family cats, resting with monkeys and lemurs, and playing with baby tigers and elephants.
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According to Animal Diversity, crowned lemurs are typically the size of a small house cat, with a body length of 34 cm.
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This measured just how much force the lemurs could exert on the bar as they were forcibly tugged in the opposite direction.
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Exotic lemurs and parrots were packed up and carried away to safety as fires ringed the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park.
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North Carolina: The Duke Lemur Center Oddly enough, the world's largest sanctuary for lemurs, lorises and bush babies is in Durham, North Carolina.
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In contrast, when dwarf lemurs in Madagascar hibernate, only a few hundred genes in their fat tissues change their level of expression seasonally.
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Elephants licked iceblocks, lemurs ate apples, and the koalas were given a special serving of their customary eucalypt leaf, a zoo spokesman said.
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Image 2 of 2 PRAGUE – Prague&aposs zoo says its attempt to breed critically endangered white-belted ruffed lemurs is on the right track.
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The Idaho Falls Zoo is divided into exhibits for various continents, including an Africa section with 28 species, including lions, zebras, lemurs, and penguins.
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Madagascar is perhaps most famous for its lemurs, acrobatic primates with big round eyes that are only found on the island and nearby Comoros.
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The situation has been particularly severe in Madagascar, a lovely island nation known for deserted sandy beaches and playful long-tailed primates called lemurs.
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As they dispersed throughout the island and made homes in its tropical rainforests, those ancestral lemurs evolved into the menagerie of species we see today.
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"Like humans, lemurs have unique facial characteristics that can be recognized by this system," biometrics expert Anil Jain, who worked on the software, told Phys.org.
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Image: Duke Lemur CenterThey collected 62 mouse lemurs, male and female, and had them grip a lemur-sized iron bar mounted to a force plate.
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But in Madagascar, fruit with blue-yellow contrasts — like those yellow berries — could be best detected by red-green colorblind lemurs (and some birds, too).
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We're told the lemurs were herded into guest rooms on the island and the parrots and tortoises were caged and stored in some of the structures.
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Lemurs, originally from Madagascar, are "sociable animals", the zoo said, and the ring-tailed variety is easily identifiable by its long black-and-white striped tail.
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French researchers put the creature's grip to the test and found, on average, that mouse lemurs can pull more than ten times their own body weight.
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Using bolt cutters, he made a hole in the fence that enclosed lemurs and capuchin monkeys, allowing several animals to escape — but they were later recovered.
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University of Colorado at Boulder anthropology professor Michelle Sauther has been studying primates and lemurs on the island nation in the Indian Ocean for 30 years.
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She sent a satisfactory response — pictures of lemurs on a wildlife preserve — and the day after she got back to Washington they met at DC9 Nightclub.
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She sent a satisfactory response — pictures of lemurs on a wildlife preserve — and the day after she got back to Washington they met at DC303 Nightclub.
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Along with breeding reserve populations in their facilities, Zoo Ostrava and other European zoos are helping the wild lemurs of Madagascar through The Lemur Conservation Association (AEECL).
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Back during the Holocene, this area was a wetland ecosystem, featuring such animals as giant lemurs, hippos, giant tortoises, crocodiles, and, as the new study suggests, humans.
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A paper she has published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociology argues that these lemurs' loss of the ability to see red, as it were, is no accident.
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The researchers also know that lemurs dedicate large areas of the brain to olfaction, helping them communicate with one another and pick mates — often in the dark.
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Over the years, as smugglers have been apprehended, the zoo has added an array of new animals to its collection, including falcons, owls and ring-tailed lemurs.
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Louise Peckre of the German Primate Centre, in Göttingen, has found that red-fronted lemurs treat threadworm infestations in the gut and around the anus with millipede juice.
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Ring-tailed lemurs like Isaac typically only live to be 20-25 years old and are endangered, in part, because of the illegal pet trade, the release said.
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The assumption until now has been that these lemurs have been unlucky and have lost part of their colour vision by chance at some point in the past.
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He drew lemurs and macaws at the zoo in Regent's Park soon after it opened in 1828, and painted stuffed birds and animals at an estate in Lancashire.
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While the species (Microcebus murinus) thrives only in Madagascar in the wild, there is a large captive population of gray mouse lemurs at ENS de Lyon in France.
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From an aquarium filled with vibrant fish to a primate habitat that's home to lemurs and orangutans, Houston Zoo has more than 700 species and thousands of animals.
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Nearly 2,000 miles away, in the similarly mountainous rain forests of Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park, yellow berries or fragrant, green figs await lemurs, the frugivores of this jungle.
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But most lemurs in Madagascar can only see the blue-yellow spectrum — they're red-green colorblind, and rely more on their strong senses of smell for many behaviors.
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To downsize the zoo, he shot and killed his aging tigers and sold numerous cubs (some of the animal sales, specifically baby lemurs, were allegedly falsified as "donations").
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And taking them out of their social environment for repeated testing can upset the social dynamics and hierarchy of all five of the lemurs that share a habitat.
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But, after sunset, their sculptural counterparts illuminate the zoo's grounds, as do fanciful renditions of lions, giraffes, zebras, rhinos, elephants, ring-tailed lemurs, cranes, dolphins, and sea turtles.
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"[Lemurs] are one of the few primates that you can actually bring little kids, anybody in, and they will sit on your lap and you're safe," Alley, 65, said.
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All other lemurs probably evolved from a common ancestor that migrated on another occasion from Africa to Madagascar anywhere from 40 million to 20 million years ago, Seiffert said.
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PHILADELPHIA - Four baby black-and-white ruffed lemurs named Maddie, Lincoln, Teddy and Quincy climbed and jumped in their enclosure during their debut at the Philadelphia Zoo on Friday.
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Ring-tailed lemurs are on a list of the 25 most endangered primates and are under threat partly because of the illegal pet trade, according to the plea agreement.
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The zoo has both indoor and outdoor exhibits of animals, including reindeer, Sumatran tiger, river otters, red pandas, lemurs, bald eagles, gibbons and red wolves, according to its website.
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A team of biologists and computer scientists have created the first ever facial recognition system for lemurs, able to identify more than 100 different individuals with 98.7 percent accuracy.
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The other enclosure held six of the ring-tailed lemurs, four of which were roaming the zoo grounds, which includes the 50 Monkey Ferris Wheel that opened in May.
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"Guests came out to welcome the leaping lemurs, who are now on exhibit with their mom and dad in PECO Primate Reserve," the zoo said in their press release.
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The island is renowned for being a laboratory of evolution, with many of its inhabitants—from lemurs, to Mantella poison frogs, to carnivorous fossas—found nowhere else on Earth.
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Anyone who has been on the internet lately knows that cuteness can get weird: lemurs with Keane-painting eyes, infants dressed as peapods, cats with toast on their heads.
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Wildlife handlers warn that lemurs are not suitable as domesticated animals and that those bred as pets can be highly unpredictable, posing a danger to themselves and their owners.
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Screenshot: Gulf Coast Livestock Auction (Facebook)On April 27, Gulf Coast Livestock Auction is selling off the collector's entire inventory, including two cassowaries, 26 marmosets, five lemurs, and 19 macaws.
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Then he shot and killed five tigers, sold baby lemurs and falsified paperwork to say they were donated, and tried to pay a hit man $3,000 to kill a rival.
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It was 2012, and Rachel Jacobs was using Detective McNulty-style tactics to sort out the associations in a very different kind of crew: the park's population of red-bellied lemurs.
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Kasbar broke into the Santa Ana Zoo on July 27, 2018 after hours using bolt cutters to cut a hole in the enclosure for lemurs and capuchin monkeys, the release said.
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Further investigation also revealed that Joe Exotic was dabbling into other illegal behavior, including the slaughter of five tigers, the interstate commercial sale of tigers, lemurs, and lions, and falsifying documents.
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In addition to learning about rat laughter in New York City, I came away with a new appreciation for lava and lemurs, while also revisiting Chile's crunching and cracking Atacama Desert.
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And Shakira and her two children, Milan and Sasha, played with endangered lemurs from Madagascar, petted Australian red kangaroos and fed Aldabra turtles from the Seychelles island nation during their VIP tour.
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But I am the outsider here in Chicago, a whale-out-of-water so to speak…surrounded by the world experts in primates, including lemurs, monkeys, and our closest relatives, the apes.
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The Thread RE: Listen to the World From the crunch of lava in Kilauea to the songs of Madagascar lemurs, our fall Voyages Issue was dedicated to sounds from across the world.
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Don't miss the primates, particularly the Western Lowland gorillas and Diana monkeys, as well as the lemur enclosure: Red-Ruffed lemurs are running free, sidling up close enough to touch (but don't).
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"Kasbar used bolt cutters to cut a hole in the zoo's enclosures for lemurs and capuchin monkeys, which enabled several of the animals to escape, though they were later recovered," court documents say.
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But it was "Zoo Quest" (1954-1963) that cemented the young broadcaster's reputation as an intrepid naturalist, seeking out lemurs in the forests of Madagascar and climbing trees to catch pythons in Indonesia.
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There may not be a human-size mouse on site, but the lemurs, kangaroos and flamingos know how to keep celebrity guests and their kids entertained at this under-the-radar Florida attraction.
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Other animals have a pseudo-penises, too, such as squirrel monkeys, lemurs, fossas, a cat-like carnivorous mammal, and binturongs, mammals with a face like a cat's and a body like a bear's.
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The Miller Park Zoo flamingo exhibit opened back in June 2016, with other indoor and outdoor exhibits including red pandas, lemurs, reindeer, river otters, gibbons, and red wolves, as well as a Sumatran tiger.
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By some estimates, Gigantopithecus reached up to 10 feet (3 meters) tall, making it not only the largest-known ape but the biggest primate, the mammalian group that includes lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans.
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During an appearance on The Meredith Vieira Show Tuesday, Alley, who owns 14 – yes, 403 – lemurs, opened up about how she needs a man that loves her furry friends just as much as she does.
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"This study does show that the 'bigger is better' idea is not ironclad—here is a bird that weighs less than 10 pennies, and it is better at this task than lemurs are," said Freeman.
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The newly analyzed fossils—three partial mandibles with teeth—came from Kenya, and date back to between 16 million and 23 million years ago, which is long after lemurs were thought to have departed Africa.
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Although the lemurs are currently not available for viewing by guests due to the ongoing construction of their new exhibit, the zoo shared a photo of the baby on Wednesday, which was born May 18.
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While wealthy tourists flock to its rainforests to spot wide-eyed lemurs and business people bargain for its luminous sapphires and fragrant vanilla, nearly half of Madagascar's children are malnourished, the highest rate in Africa.
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In this sequel, David Attenborough's iconic narration often takes a melancholy turn as he explains why an island's crab population is deteriorating, or why a family of lanky lemurs has lost much of its habitat.
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"I started out [having] lemurs because they are a great animal, and I was very interested in conservation in Madagascar [where they are from] and saving rainforests and forests," the Jenny Craig spokeswoman, 64, tells PEOPLE.
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About 21 percent of the world's monkeys, apes, tarsiers, lemurs and other primates are now threatened with extinction because of widespread agricultural and logging operations that are destroying forest habitats at a rapid clip, scientists found.
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The Centre ValBio was founded in 2012 by Stony Brook primatologist and conservationist Dr. Patricia Wright, who for decades has worked in the region to conserve Madagascar's endangered lemurs while advancing economic prospects for rural communities.
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Image: GettyOn Sunday morning, someone took 13 tortoises, seven birds, seven ring-tailed lemurs, five marmosets, and four monkeys from the We Care Wildlife Sanctuary in Miami, loaded all the animals into a truck, and drove off.
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The private family also got to experience hands-on activities including touching the white collar of an Andean condor, feeding alligators and interacting with other fascinating animals like two-toed sloths, lemurs, capuchin monkeys and Aldabra tortoises.
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An invasive species of toad in Madagascar is even more dangerous to local wildlife than previously suspected — its poisonous slime is deadly to just about any local predator, including endangered lemurs, that tries to eat the amphibian.
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Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island is home to a variety of exotic animals, including more than 80 lemurs, hundreds of flamingos -- including a blind one, Miss Lucky -- red foot tortoises, exotic birds and almost extinct Anegada iguanas.
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It was fed images of some 462 different lemurs covering a variety of different species, with the main focus being the red-bellied lemur — a species found in the rainforests of eastern Madagascar that's vulnerable, but not endangered.
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They include animated projects like Damien O'Connor's "Anya," the hopeful journey of a Russian orphan; Louise Bagnall's "Late Afternoon," which explores an elderly woman's memories; and Mark C. Smith's "Two Balloons," a comedy starring lemurs that fly dirigibles.
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Current evidence suggests these animals rafted across the Mozambique Channel from Africa on logs or floating vegetation, and Seiffert thinks ancient lemurs and aye-ayes probably did the same—but not before all the other mammals, as previously thought.
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Murphy's camera trap stars are often Madagascar's otherworldly animals, like lemurs and fossa, but she is also bringing her perspective on wildlife to the northeast United States, where she is pursuing a PhD in ecology at Penn State University.
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After the ad was posted, the animals — which included seven ring-tailed lemurs, five marmosets, four monkeys, seven birds and 13 tortoises — disappeared between late Saturday night and early Sunday morning from the We Care Wildlife Sanctuary in Miami.
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According to the ad, the ten-acre park in Crestview, Florida, comes equipped with 90 different animals including multiple breeds of tigers, an African lion, a few wolves, baboons, patas monkeys, otters, some lemurs, and at least one sloth.
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The following are some of the best photos that were specifically taken for Motherboard articles either by our own staff or by contributors, and they run the gamut from lemurs bounding through billionaire bars or shops for Chinese sex robots.
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Graduate student Pauline Thomas wanted to explore just how these tiny animals managed to hang onto tree branches so tightly with their itsy-bitsy arms, so she and a few colleagues designed an experiment to measure the mouse lemurs' grip strength.
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Asim the tiger batted around his big, orange ball of a pumpkin before sinking his teeth and claws into the gourd, while the ring-tailed lemurs took a few moments to admire the carvings before noshing on the treats for breakfast.
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Scientists on Thursday announced the discovery of the remains of six previously unknown extinct primate species: four similar to Madagascar's lemurs, one similar to the nocturnal insect- and lizard-eating tarsiers of the Philippines and Indonesia, and one monkey-like primate.
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" We're doing a story about the indri [lemurs], and then we do a little twist and say, "Of course, in the 10 years since this indri was born, the amount of forest it has to live in has [dramatically] reduced.
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If the researchers confirm their hypothesis by studying aye-aye lemurs living at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, N.C., the aye-aye will be the first animal described to have evolved an extra digit for dexterity because of a hyper-specialized trait.
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For a study published today in the journal Science Advances, scientists combined information from the Red List of endangered species, United Nations databases, and scientific literature to analyze the state of over 500 primates (which include monkeys, apes, and even lemurs) around the world.
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Other acceptable but not totally faithfully presented footage involved a camera strapped to a golden eagle that was later revealed to be a trained bird, and other animals, like the lemurs in Madagascar, who were used to humans after being studied by scientists, which allowed for closer filming.
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"This diverse country is so much more than lemurs, even if that is one of the main draws to go here, but go visit the Baobab Alley, the deserts in the south, and tropical islands of the north, whale watching, incredible diving, and so much more," Kjellgren said.
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It was in this context, as she describes in a paper in Primates, that Ms Peckre watched with fascination the habit of some red-fronted lemurs she had under observation in the Kirindy Forest, in Madagascar, of gnawing on benzoquinone-rich millipedes and rubbing the remains around their anuses, then swallowing them.
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Read more:You can now take a reindeer yoga class at a ranch in AlaskaA Las Vegas hotel offers yoga with dolphins to help people 'find balance and serenity'You can do Pilates with miniature pigs on this farm in EnglandAn English hotel has launched outdoor yoga with lemurs to help people de-stress
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In Drew Fulton's "Remixing Madagascar," the sound artist Ben Mirin creates music from recordings of lemurs, frogs, birds like the vanga and other animals (Mirin will demonstrate his work during a discussion after the screening), and in "The Great Pretender," the director Nardine Groch films the courtship struggles of a superb lyrebird.
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The biologist E.O. Wilson eloquently argued against living in a world of crows and rats, and against the loss of beautiful, fragile species like snow leopards, white rhinos and tiny mouse lemurs; even if you never see a lemur or an arctic fox in person, the world can be a richer place by having such creatures in it.
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The mission of the aquarium — which underwent a major expansion in 2005 — is to connect the movement of water from the mountains to the sea with the beings that both live in or are dependent on the world's water system; it's a well-told conservation story that includes lemurs, birds, otters, penguins and a wondrous Butterfly Room.
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Read more:A hotel in Bali provides puppies for guests to play with by the pool and the $22 a night price includes free yogaAn English hotel has launched outdoor yoga with lemurs to help people de-stressA yoga influencer&aposs 650,000 followers are angry after her &aposweekly&apos giveaways turned out not to be weekly at all
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