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Belted black-and-white ruffed lemur

Island next to Cafe, Newquay, 28th September 2014.

Belted black-and-white ruffed lemur
gentle lemur, 1 Oct 2014
    • gentle lemur
      Island next to Cafe, Newquay, 28th September 2014.
      1 Oct 2014
    • vogelcommando
      Nice picture of this rare subspecies gentle lemur. Howmany are kept at Newquay and are there more collections in the UK with it ?
      2 Oct 2014
    • TeaLovingDave
      This is indeed a very nice taxon; although from what I have heard it may only be a matter of time before it is granted full species status. Belted Ruffed Lemur are not too uncommon in UK collections, being also held at Belfast, Port Lympne, South Lakes and Cotswold Wildlife Park, with successful breeding at all of these collections as far as I know.

      Unfortunately - but unsurprisingly - those animals held at South Lakes are mixed with Pied Ruffed (Varecia variegata variegata) and Red Ruffed (Varecia rubra) and the three taxa breed freely with one another, leading to something of a hybrid complex in that population :p
      2 Oct 2014
    • gentle lemur
      There is a very vocal pair at Newquay. As TLD has said there are a few around, but I have never visited South Lakes or Belfast, and I can't recall seeing them at Port Lympne or Cotswold (they may have been asleep or I may have been concentrating on the sifakas and gentle lemurs in those collections :)).

      Alan
      2 Oct 2014
    • Pertinax
      Whew- that really isn't very good zoological practise in this day and age:(-don't the SB keepers have anything to say about that?
      2 Oct 2014
    • Pertinax
      PL was the first place I saw them- I wasn't expecting them so a bit of a surprise. They were 'in the woods' top end near the Sifaka. Excellent shot as per usual btw....:)
      2 Oct 2014
    • TeaLovingDave
      I daresay they *do* have something to say about it - but I also daresay that Gill fobs them off with the same kind of barefaced lie as that he tells the giraffe studbook regarding his mixture of pure Kordofan with generic animals ;) ie saying they are not mixed and never have been!

      This photograph posted by zoogiraffe nicely proves the ruffed lemur mix.....

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      2 Oct 2014
    • foz
      Do we know if these have ever bred at Newquay?
      9 Aug 2015
    • gentle lemur
      No births listed in the Annual Reports from 2011 to 2014.

      Alan
      9 Aug 2015
    • Onychorhynchus coronatus
      Magnificent shot !
      2 Feb 2021
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