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Chester Zoo Welcomes its First Red-Bellied Lemur Baby: It's a 'Real Cause for Celebration'

Aina, the 4-year-old red-bellied lemur, gave birth to her baby six weeks ago at the Chester Zoo after a 127-day pregnancy It's furry first at the Chester Zoo. The English zoo announced in a press ...
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Laid-Back Lemur Enjoys Listening to Rap and Dances to the Beat

Laid-Back Lemur Enjoys Listening to Rap and Dances to the Beat originally appeared on PetHelpful. It's not every day that you get to see videos of pet lemurs, and it's even less usual to see a pet ...
USA Today

She rescued an animal thinking it was a lemur. It turned out to be something else.

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated when the rescue was made. A Texas woman experienced quite the surprise when she rescued an injured animal last month. The story started ...
The New York Times

A Teenager Stole a Lemur From a Zoo, and Almost Got Away With It

Aquinas Kasbar, 19, faces up to a year in prison for stealing Isaac, who Santa Ana Zoo officials say is the oldest ring-tailed lemur in captivity in North America. By Neil Vigdor It was a case worthy ...
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Maki the lemur who was kidnapped from SF Zoo in 2020 has died, officials say

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- "Maki," the ring-tailed lemur who captured the hearts of the public after he was kidnapped and recovered in October 2020, has died, the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens officials ...
People

Endangered Blue-Eyed Black Lemur Born at Florida Zoo: 'We Have Many Reasons to Celebrate'

The new arrival is only the second blue-eyed black lemur to be born at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens in Florida Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.
Today

A little higher! Watch this lemur demand a back scratch from 2 kids

It's the worst kind of itch — the one just out of reach — and apparently, it frustrates those in the animal kingdom, too. In a YouTube video posted Tuesday, one lemur really captures that feeling when ...
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Little Rock Zoo to celebrate, bring awareness to lemurs with a 'lemur stink fight'

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Little Rock Zoo is gearing up to celebrate and bring awareness to lemurs this weekend. The zoo said they will be celebrating the Madagascar-native primate along with their ...
Inverse

Lemur study finds first evidence of a human-like mating trait

Spring is in the air and that means one thing for ring-tailed lemurs: It’s time to get busy. For these bright-eyed primates, mating is concentrated during a few weeks each April — and now, researchers ...
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A teenager stole an endangered lemur from a zoo. Now he’s been sentenced to federal prison

A 19-year-old man was sentenced to three months in federal prison for breaking into a California zoo and stealing an endangered Lemur. Aquinas Kasbar of Newport Beach, California, was sentenced Monday ...
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An endangered lemur that went missing from a California zoo turned up at a church playground

After a dramatic day in the San Francisco urban jungle, a ring-tailed lemur has been returned to the zoo from where he went missing earlier this week. And the zoo has a sprightly 5-year-old boy to ...