Zoo celebrates birth of six rare baby lemurs
The arrivals at Chester Zoo include two sets of ring-tailed lemur twins.
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A zoo is celebrating after six rare lemurs – including two sets of twins – were born.
Dr Nick Davis, Chester Zoo’s deputy curator of mammals, said: “To have six rare baby lemurs born within weeks of each other is great news for the breeding programme.
Keepers will not know the babies’ genders until they leave their mothers’ backs and start to move around their enclosure independently.
Madagascar has lost 90% of its forests, according to the zoo, leaving many of its native species on the brink of extinction.
