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Hybrid Ruffed Lemur 17th October 1997

Hybrid Ruffed Lemur 17th October 1997
Parrotsandrew, 2 Mar 2013
birdsandbats and JurassicMax like this.
    • Chlidonias
      what is it a hybrid between? Red ruffed and black-and-white ruffed? Or with something else?
    • FBBird
      Hybrid Ruffed Lemur

      This is Black & White x Red. There were a lot of these around at one time before they were phased out in favour of pure Red and Black & White. Monkeyworld had a very active and noisy group which used to live in a well wooded area and spent a lot of time up in the trees.
    • Pertinax
      And they nearly always look like this colourwise. The ones at ZSL and(I think) Jersey certainly did.
    • Parrotsandrew
      I am just wondering how there came to be a lot around. I have seen them at a few places. Were several collections breeding them?
    • Bele
      Both London and Jersey bred quite a few . Many years ago one of the highlights of my visit to the Clore Pavilion was to see the then very rare ruffed lemurs , one red , the other black and white , one of which I think was collected by David Attenborough . They produced one offspring then one parent died , the many hybrids produced after that were from parent ( ? female ) and offspring pairing . Amongst the offspring were some curious hairless examples - I saw one of these behind the scenes at the Sobell pavilion .

      The first pure specimens were imported by Jersey from San Diego I think , a pair of each .
    • TeaLovingDave
      How rapidly things change! :D

      I have to admit, ruffed lemurs along with ringtailed lemurs are species I tend to ignore due to their ubiquity.
    • Pertinax
      The Black & White one was the female and was the one presented by DA. It was alone for many years( the only Ruffed Lemur in the UK!) but was usually invisible/asleep, at least before the Red one came, from Paris. It was the B/W female that died after one breeding, so the hybrids were from the (Red) male parent/offspring or between the offspring. I remember the hairless ones too.

      Not sure if Jersey's original hybrids came from ZSL, or were created from animals of their own breeding?
    • Parrotsandrew
      Many thanks for the information Bele and Pertinax.
    • Al
      Are their any photos of the hairless ones? Sounds unusual!
    • Tim May
      I recall seeing hairless youngsters several times in the Clore Pavilion; I too was taken behind the scenes in the Sobell Pavilion several times, in the early 1980s, to see an adult hairless specimen. (I’m sure you were with me “Bele” on at least one of these occasions around 30 years ago.)

      A little more detail about the London Zoo animals may be of interest:-

      David Attenborough presented the female ruffed lemur to London Zoo in 1960 after his “Zoo Quest to Madagascar” television programme. The male ruffed lemur was received on loan from the Jardin des Plates Menagerie (Paris) in 1969.

      This pair produced a youngster in 1972; I think this was the first ruffed lemur to be born in the UK. As has already been mentioned it was a red ruffed lemur x black & white ruffed lemur hybrid (although the two forms were considered conspecific in those days).
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