23th October 2011
Today we managed to get a few shots of Bonnie our new Red Ruffed Lemur that arrived on the 11th October from a collection in Bath called Endangered Madagascar. She is a 7 year old female and new girlfriend to our previously single red ruffed bachalor Andro.
Lemurs are social animals and so it is important for them to have company. Andro did previously live with his twin sister but they both have a genetic condition that causes them epilpsy and unfortunately despite daily medical treatment she succumbed to this condition earlier in the year leaving Andro by himself. The new pair of Andro and Bonnie are getting on fine and enjoying each others company. Because of Andro's condition he will not be a breeding animal because it would not be beneficial to the breeding program to pass on his genes.
These shots from today are from feeding time at the 12.30 talk which is the best time to see the two in action,
Red Ruffed Lemur 'Bonnie':
Hanging out foraging for fruit:
Bonnie is on the right hand side on this photo. The two lemurs are distinguishable by their eye colour, as you can notice Bonnie's eye are yellow and in the next photo, Andro's eye can be seen to be more orange.
Andro's firey ear tuffs blowing galantly in the wind:
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