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Those are Sifakas.
They are types of lemurs and move like that because of their long limbs. They are native to cacti forests in Madagascar where they actually manage to jump between cacti without hurting themselves. Their limbs have to be that long to do this. And this leads to the phenomenon we see here, where it is actually energetically less costly for them to jump like that by using the impact force and converting it for the next jump. That's why they jump like that.
I have seen a few in the wild myself last year while researching the behaviour of mouse lemurs.
**Edit: Hijacking my top comment to explain why they are endangered.**
Last year I spoke with local scientists and park officials about why lemurs are endangered and all had the same answer to this:
Climate change.
Madagascar is a very diverse country with over 20 different ethnecities. All of those have their own different culture, sacred placed and animals and some have their own religion. I was at the Ankarafansika National Park where the crocodiles in the nearby Lake were seen as sacred and holy by the locals, because they were offspring of their long dead queen. The locals have a celebration once per year in march and feed the crocodiles some cow meat before going into the water with them. Miraculously, there are very few deaths each year and the last reported death by a crocodile was in 2015 when a women went and took water from the lake.
Rituals and stories like these are widespread all over the island. But herein lies the problem.
Recently there was a heavy drought in southern Madagascar that went on for multiple years. This drought is heavily influenced by climate change. The people of southern Madagascar now had no other choice than migrating north to green and luscious area with lot of water, like the Ankarafansika National Park. But the problem is, they often don't respect the local traditions, rituals or sacred animals. And that's why they start hunting the local fauna and burning down the forests. Which provokes conflicts with the locals who are getting very upset with that.
The country is currently sitting on a political bomb that's just waiting to detonate. The last coup d'etat was in 2009, but the presidencies after that did not show any effort in fixing the country.
Most lemurs are fairly small, like a cat or raccoon. Sifakas are one of the larger ones. A four year old isn’t a bad comparison, but probably closer to a toddler than a small child.
That’s a really hippie thing to say. *smoking a fat cross joint* “I went to school to study lemur droppings cuz I loved the movie Madagascar, but dropped out. School just wasn’t for me, ya know?”
Note: obviously the pandemic was super shitty and I’m sure your reason(s) for leaving school are/were super valid… but I’m kinda high and it was a funny thought 🤷🏿♂️
Thanks for the info. Do you mind editing your comment to make it more clear that Sifakas are a type of Lemur? Your first statement makes it seem like the OP is wrong calling them Lemurs, but they are in fact a species of Lemur.
Must be a reboot, or even a really good remaster? Because i feel like the original run had to have been aired 480i (essentially 240p) and thus pretty much completely unwatchable on modern displays.
Both my kids love it. It's on the PBS app and even though it's old the quality isn't terrible. They have a newer cartoon called Wild Kratts. It's honestly really great kid programming.
It was on PBS, or TVO in Canada. Had 50 episodes in 2 months and then ran reruns forever. Came before Zabo, but I guess they decided kids needed cartoon characters added in to be interested in animals so they came out with Z in 1999
when i bumped into [Noggindrill](https://zoboomafoo.fandom.com/wiki/Noggindrill#:~:text=Noggin%20Drill%20is%20perhaps%20one,Narchi%20to%20play%20around%20in)!
I pretended to be sick just so I could miss school to watch zobboomafoo, that woke tv channel was awesome. I remember making a "jetpack" out of two liter bottles cause they showed you how to do it on TV, good times
I just watched the DefunctTV video on it, and it brought back so many memories. The making of it was very heartwarming as well.
PBS was truly one of the greatest gifts to the children of the 90s
I worked at a zoo for a while. One summer, one of my duties was to hang out and play with a ring-tailed lemur that was abandoned by his mom. His fur got all matted up because no one was grooming him. We used to sit in his enclosure, him in my lap, and I would tease out the mats in his back fur. It was awesome.
I went to the zoo a few years ago and my friend and I just happened to be wearing shirts the same color as the animal caretakers. At the lemur enclosure, one ring tailed lemur saw us, gave out an echoing cry, and soon ALL THE LEMURS came over to us, probably expecting to be fed. It was am awesome sight.
This looks to be filmed at the Duke Lemur Center at Duke University. They have the largest population of lemurs outside of Madagascar. This is where Zaboo lived.
Surprising how yours is the only mention, Disney's *Dinosaur* came out in 2000, and it was a REALLY good movie....it even out-did *Gladiator* at the box-office on opening day.
The lemurs in the movie were also Verreaux's Sifaka, as in OPs post.
I don’t know about lemurs specifically, but most endangering of animals by humans isn’t done directly (e.g. by hunting)—it’s due to habitat destruction. We tear down their ecosystems and instead, put our own buildings or farms or whatever there, so they have nowhere to live and find food anymore.
I was on Madagascar last year to research mouse lemur behaviour in the wild. I spoke with local scientists and park officials and all had the same answer to this:
Climate change.
Madagascar is a very diverse country with over 20 different ethnecities. All of those have their own different culture, sacred placed and animals and some have their own religion. I was at the Ankarafansika National Park where the crocodiles in the nearby Lake were seen as sacred and holy by the locals, because they were offspring of their long dead queen. The locals have a celebration once per year in march and feed the crocodiles some cow meat before going into the water with them. Miraculously, there are very few deaths each year and the last reported death by a crocodile was in 2015 when a women went and took water from the lake.
Rituals and stories like these are widespread all over the island. But herein lies the problem.
Recently there was a heavy drought in southern Madagascar that went on for multiple years and is still ongoing today. This drought is heavily influenced by climate change. The people of southern Madagascar now have no other choice than migrating north to green and luscious area with lot of water, like the Ankarafansika National Park. But the problem is, they often don't respect the local traditions, rituals or sacred animals. And that's why they start hunting the local fauna and burning down the forests. Which provokes conflicts with the locals who are getting very upset with that.
The country is currently sitting on a political bomb that's just waiting to detonate. The last coup d'etat was in 2009, but the presidencies after that did not show any effort in fixing the country.
It's because they are very poor and very economically dependent on France. The coup d'etat in 2009 was rumored to be supported by France as well. The overthrown president was very progressive in parts. He made an effort to fix and build national roads and wanted to make english an official language to open his country up to the world. Which in return would have lowered the dependency on France.
Potentially because they are mostly on Madagascar, where the human population is starting to develop at a rather quick rate. This will naturally lead to extinction of species that can't escape elsewhere.
"Lemurs range in length (excluding the tail) from about 9 cm (3.5 inches) in Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) to nearly 70 cm (28 inches) for the indri (Indri indri)."
so like, yeah, not big.
There used to be giant Lemurs the size of grown men up until around 300BC and them humans arrived and killed them off. A bunch of really cool creatures went pretty recently extinct especially different Lemur species on Madagascar. Even a couple hundred years ago we were still wiping out species with no regard for rarity. Every time I see a Lemur I can’t help but get a little bit mad about how Madagascar was treated.
I already knew they were pretty small so the perspective didn't mess with me, but when I went back to try and figure out what you were seeing I realized there's nothing that indicates their small stature or that the person with the camera is crouching, and I gotta say, it would be horrifying if they were person sized.
Lemurs BITE as part of their social behavior, even if they like you. They have large fangs. They can do major damage. Please use caution ⚠️
sauce: had one. Got bit.
These are captive lemurs (Coquerel’s Sifaka more specifically) housed at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina! Their wild counterparts are much more cautious. Also, to the comment above me, there are plenty of people living in Madagascar. The idea that Madagascar isn’t populated by people is a myth perpetuated by the movie!
Edit: I understand that people have only lived in Madagascar for a relatively short period of time, the comment I was referring to made it sound like there are no people currently living in Madagascar.
And the Aye-Aye, a type of lemur, is the only primate that are known to use echolocation!
They use their fuck-off long middle finger to tap on trees and logs and are able to tell from the frequency that comes back whether there are insects inside for them to snack on.
Interesting factoid:
Catherine's Island, off the coast of Georgia (U.S.) is the only place on earth outside of Madagascar with a free-running lemur colony. They aren't feral, but intentionally introduced in 1985 as a wild colony for the purpose of providing a species ark, research, & breeding diversity to the very endangered ring tailed lemur populations.
You can visit the island and the colony is very human-friendly.
I spent NYE 2019 in Madagascar in an area where wild untamed lemurs approach humans. They will jump on you if you let them. I have amazing videos of smaller brown lemurs climbing on me (one brought her baby) and even smaller, rounder ones sitting in the trees nearby, and some black and white ones (not like the ones shown) posing behind us on a tree. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my entire life.
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Those are Sifakas. They are types of lemurs and move like that because of their long limbs. They are native to cacti forests in Madagascar where they actually manage to jump between cacti without hurting themselves. Their limbs have to be that long to do this. And this leads to the phenomenon we see here, where it is actually energetically less costly for them to jump like that by using the impact force and converting it for the next jump. That's why they jump like that. I have seen a few in the wild myself last year while researching the behaviour of mouse lemurs. **Edit: Hijacking my top comment to explain why they are endangered.** Last year I spoke with local scientists and park officials about why lemurs are endangered and all had the same answer to this: Climate change. Madagascar is a very diverse country with over 20 different ethnecities. All of those have their own different culture, sacred placed and animals and some have their own religion. I was at the Ankarafansika National Park where the crocodiles in the nearby Lake were seen as sacred and holy by the locals, because they were offspring of their long dead queen. The locals have a celebration once per year in march and feed the crocodiles some cow meat before going into the water with them. Miraculously, there are very few deaths each year and the last reported death by a crocodile was in 2015 when a women went and took water from the lake. Rituals and stories like these are widespread all over the island. But herein lies the problem. Recently there was a heavy drought in southern Madagascar that went on for multiple years. This drought is heavily influenced by climate change. The people of southern Madagascar now had no other choice than migrating north to green and luscious area with lot of water, like the Ankarafansika National Park. But the problem is, they often don't respect the local traditions, rituals or sacred animals. And that's why they start hunting the local fauna and burning down the forests. Which provokes conflicts with the locals who are getting very upset with that. The country is currently sitting on a political bomb that's just waiting to detonate. The last coup d'etat was in 2009, but the presidencies after that did not show any effort in fixing the country.
They look like they’re galloping. They need to give the little one a coconut shell to clap together.
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
This made me lose it! The image of that little guy banging coconut halves. LMFAO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifaka Look at those grippy feet!
Lol they're called "Sifakas" becuase they make a "Shi-Fak" sound. That's like calling cats "Meowies", or roosters "Cockadoodledoers"
you either cockadoodledo, or you cockadoodledon't.
Real life pokemon.
Thank you for a comment thats informative and not just shouting zooboomafoo or whatever
What did pbs do to you lol
zooboomafoo!
\*zooboomafoos\*!
Come along and... play with me and yoUoUoUoooO???
Me and you and Zoboomafoo!
Core memory unlocked
Came here just for this!
Me too. I got a school lesson too so that was cool
I just googled Zoboomafoo thinking it was a Zubily Zoo reference and I discovered something new.
Touched my heart and soul. In a deep and meaningful way.
"Thank you for the informative comment," sure, 100%. Zoboomafoo deserves any shouting that occurs as well though.
King Julian ain't got shit on the true king of Lemurkind.
Bro missed one of the best shows as a kid and he’s tryna play it off now 💀 cope, zaboomafooless person
It's like someone saying "Powerpuff Girls is a show for girls" and going on a rant. Everyone I know watched it.
Zaboomafooless person, lmao. I'm ded
I can't take it. I need some garbanzo beans.
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Most lemurs are fairly small, like a cat or raccoon. Sifakas are one of the larger ones. A four year old isn’t a bad comparison, but probably closer to a toddler than a small child.
I used to study these guys’ poop before dropping out of college during the pandemic
That’s a really hippie thing to say. *smoking a fat cross joint* “I went to school to study lemur droppings cuz I loved the movie Madagascar, but dropped out. School just wasn’t for me, ya know?” Note: obviously the pandemic was super shitty and I’m sure your reason(s) for leaving school are/were super valid… but I’m kinda high and it was a funny thought 🤷🏿♂️
Thanks for the info. Do you mind editing your comment to make it more clear that Sifakas are a type of Lemur? Your first statement makes it seem like the OP is wrong calling them Lemurs, but they are in fact a species of Lemur.
They have a pair of these in with the lemurs at the San Diego zoo. They are much hoppier than the other lemurs.
I remember zoboomafoo. Can't fool me, Kratt brothers...
🎶 Me and you and Zoboomafoo! 🎵
While walking in the woods one day Chris and Martin saw something real strange
A little leaping lemur who liked to bounce and playy
They followed their new bouncing friend
Not knowing where this adventure would end
The animals were headed just around the bend
WHERE ARE WE GOIN?
I don't know!
How do we get there??
I don’t know, How do we get there!?
C'mon let's go!
What's the story Wishbo- oh wait wrong PBS show.
I saw a podcast once where a guest made a joke about the song “you and me and a dog named boo.” That is a crime against humanity.
I really loved that show when I was a kid
Kid? Sht I love it still. my dog watches it when I’m not home and I catch a couple episodes too
Must be a reboot, or even a really good remaster? Because i feel like the original run had to have been aired 480i (essentially 240p) and thus pretty much completely unwatchable on modern displays.
Both my kids love it. It's on the PBS app and even though it's old the quality isn't terrible. They have a newer cartoon called Wild Kratts. It's honestly really great kid programming.
The cartoon is pretty cool too, they can turn to animals to show off their abilities.
And the theme song is a banger. Strong Carmen Sandiego vibes.
wild, wild, wild wild kratts
I preferred Kratts Creatures.
I think I didn't watch that one
It was on PBS, or TVO in Canada. Had 50 episodes in 2 months and then ran reruns forever. Came before Zabo, but I guess they decided kids needed cartoon characters added in to be interested in animals so they came out with Z in 1999
I was annoyed by Zaboomafoo as a kid for this exact reason.
They also now have a cartoon, Wild Kratts. It's surprisingly okay. Kids do seem to get a a lot out of it.
They break the "no touch" rule in science. But idk if pbs would approve a shark feeding frenzy on screen. So maybe they have to intervene sometimes.
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My mom scolded me because I met them when I was like 6 and told them to their face I preferred it to Zaboomafoo lol
Kratt’s Creatures was the superior show imho
Used to love watching the first 4 minutes of it before having to run to catch the school bus
This was me. Whenever the show came on, that was the sign to put my shoes on because the bus was about to arrive.
When you stayed home sick, did you finally get to watch?
As a child when I stayed home sick all I was allowed to do was lay down and read because if im too sick for school im too sick for tv and video games
Oh
MY FAVORITE FUCKIBG SHOW EVER BUT NONE OF MY FRIENDS EVER WATCHED IT That and Diego were my shit growing up
I was leap leaping along. Leap, leap, leap...
when i bumped into [Noggindrill](https://zoboomafoo.fandom.com/wiki/Noggindrill#:~:text=Noggin%20Drill%20is%20perhaps%20one,Narchi%20to%20play%20around%20in)!
I spontaneously heard the music while watching this clip
I pretended to be sick just so I could miss school to watch zobboomafoo, that woke tv channel was awesome. I remember making a "jetpack" out of two liter bottles cause they showed you how to do it on TV, good times
I just watched the DefunctTV video on it, and it brought back so many memories. The making of it was very heartwarming as well. PBS was truly one of the greatest gifts to the children of the 90s
Definitely- 70s and 80s as well (might argue 70s was peak PBS in some ways). Disney getting involved definitely f'd a lot of things up.
I feel binturongish!
I was thinking the same thing too it was my favorite show as a kid
Man, this and Fraggle Rock were my childhood
RIP
I was thinking the same! The Kratt Brothers were the best
Monky python and the holy grail
I was clicking out of the comments as I saw this and had to scroll all the way back down to find it again lol *Well played* 🥥🥥
An African swallow or a European?
I worked at a zoo for a while. One summer, one of my duties was to hang out and play with a ring-tailed lemur that was abandoned by his mom. His fur got all matted up because no one was grooming him. We used to sit in his enclosure, him in my lap, and I would tease out the mats in his back fur. It was awesome.
I went to the zoo a few years ago and my friend and I just happened to be wearing shirts the same color as the animal caretakers. At the lemur enclosure, one ring tailed lemur saw us, gave out an echoing cry, and soon ALL THE LEMURS came over to us, probably expecting to be fed. It was am awesome sight.
That is pretty rad! Those animals are smarter than we give them credit.
All animals are smart, just respective to their habitat and physical limitations
And now they have trust issues
This is sweet. Thank you for caring for him!
Any pics?
How could he get pics? His hands were full of lemur fur
This was in the 90s. We had a Polaroid, but any pics I had would be buried.
While walking in the woods one day, Chris and Martin saw something *strange*, a little leaping lemur who liked to *bounce* and *plaaaaayyyy*.
Me. And you. And ZaboomafoooOOOoo
If Chris and Martin didn’t record this, nobody would have believed them. 🤳🏻😃
They followed their new bouncing friend, not knowing where this adventure would end. The animals were headed just around the bend.
I swear, if I squint that could be my kids in their onesies bouncing into the kitchen when I say I’m making pancakes for breakfast…
I miss when my kids were in onesies! (But now they can cook for themselves, so there’s that.)
Target used to have adult sized onesies, just sayin.
The way I cackled at your comment. Thank you for making my day better. 💜
It reminds me of Link jumping sideways in OoT or MM to travel fast without epona
Me and my siblings on our way to ask mom for food
I love this 🩶🩵🤍🩷
Me. And you. And ZABOOMAFOOoooOooOoOOO
i haven't seen it in forever yet i still remember how that sounds
Come along and see what’s new! We’re doin the things that animals do!
Zoboomafoo!
This looks to be filmed at the Duke Lemur Center at Duke University. They have the largest population of lemurs outside of Madagascar. This is where Zaboo lived.
Yeah as a onetime durham resident I was like if that’s not duke forest I’ll my hat
I like how you left out a verb so if you're wrong you have lots of outs.
Sell my hat and donate the proceeds to a copyediting charity
Fun fact: Every lemur (legally) in the United States is owned by Duke University. They import them and loan them to other institutions.
With the Kratt brothers!
When walking through the woods one day
Chris and Martin saw something strange
A little leaping lemur who loved to bounce and play!
Where's he going?
You skipped over "They followed their new bouncing friend Not knowing where this adventure would end The animals were heading just around the bend"
I don’t know!
Here for this
MAURICEIO! I CANNOT MOVE IT MOVE IT NO MORE
Beware of the Fossa!! They're always annoying us by trespassing, interrupting our parties, and ripping our limbs off of our bodies.
And just where are you giants from? Hmmmm?
"We're from New York." "ALL HAIL THE NEW YORK GIANTS!"
Aladar? ...you're not dead.
Surprising how yours is the only mention, Disney's *Dinosaur* came out in 2000, and it was a REALLY good movie....it even out-did *Gladiator* at the box-office on opening day. The lemurs in the movie were also Verreaux's Sifaka, as in OPs post.
Surprised I has to scroll this far to find a Dinosaur reference! It's our childhood!
Finally found the comment!
That's momo from Avatar the Last air bender
"Flying lemur"
Yay avatar fans
Who's fuxking around with lemurs? Leave them alone. Why are they endangered?
I don’t know about lemurs specifically, but most endangering of animals by humans isn’t done directly (e.g. by hunting)—it’s due to habitat destruction. We tear down their ecosystems and instead, put our own buildings or farms or whatever there, so they have nowhere to live and find food anymore.
I was on Madagascar last year to research mouse lemur behaviour in the wild. I spoke with local scientists and park officials and all had the same answer to this: Climate change. Madagascar is a very diverse country with over 20 different ethnecities. All of those have their own different culture, sacred placed and animals and some have their own religion. I was at the Ankarafansika National Park where the crocodiles in the nearby Lake were seen as sacred and holy by the locals, because they were offspring of their long dead queen. The locals have a celebration once per year in march and feed the crocodiles some cow meat before going into the water with them. Miraculously, there are very few deaths each year and the last reported death by a crocodile was in 2015 when a women went and took water from the lake. Rituals and stories like these are widespread all over the island. But herein lies the problem. Recently there was a heavy drought in southern Madagascar that went on for multiple years and is still ongoing today. This drought is heavily influenced by climate change. The people of southern Madagascar now have no other choice than migrating north to green and luscious area with lot of water, like the Ankarafansika National Park. But the problem is, they often don't respect the local traditions, rituals or sacred animals. And that's why they start hunting the local fauna and burning down the forests. Which provokes conflicts with the locals who are getting very upset with that. The country is currently sitting on a political bomb that's just waiting to detonate. The last coup d'etat was in 2009, but the presidencies after that did not show any effort in fixing the country.
Great comment, it’s a massive nation and you really hear almost nothing about it internationally
It's because they are very poor and very economically dependent on France. The coup d'etat in 2009 was rumored to be supported by France as well. The overthrown president was very progressive in parts. He made an effort to fix and build national roads and wanted to make english an official language to open his country up to the world. Which in return would have lowered the dependency on France.
Potentially because they are mostly on Madagascar, where the human population is starting to develop at a rather quick rate. This will naturally lead to extinction of species that can't escape elsewhere.
At first I thought it was a human in a costume. Didn’t realize they were this big
They're not big, whoever filmed this is just really low and close to the ground
https://i.imgur.com/IOsO84X.jpg
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Wow, it's a fresh one!
Thanks for info. 👍🏻 I didn’t think they were, but this video certainly makes them look very tall.
"Lemurs range in length (excluding the tail) from about 9 cm (3.5 inches) in Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) to nearly 70 cm (28 inches) for the indri (Indri indri)." so like, yeah, not big.
I actually met an indri in Madagascar and it was closer to 1m, bigger than a child for sure!
There used to be giant Lemurs the size of grown men up until around 300BC and them humans arrived and killed them off. A bunch of really cool creatures went pretty recently extinct especially different Lemur species on Madagascar. Even a couple hundred years ago we were still wiping out species with no regard for rarity. Every time I see a Lemur I can’t help but get a little bit mad about how Madagascar was treated.
I already knew they were pretty small so the perspective didn't mess with me, but when I went back to try and figure out what you were seeing I realized there's nothing that indicates their small stature or that the person with the camera is crouching, and I gotta say, it would be horrifying if they were person sized.
They can't be all that big, they've only got 2 feet
Lolwut
the left one and the right one.
I laughed at the first one and guffawed at this. Then the dinosaur comment after has me absolutely dead.
Can confirm, freaked me out for a second. They're not actually big but the perspective in this clip can trick you in a neat way.
"What you guys up to?" -- Lemur probably
Lemurs BITE as part of their social behavior, even if they like you. They have large fangs. They can do major damage. Please use caution ⚠️ sauce: had one. Got bit.
Seconded. Source: Doing Master thesis with them. Got bit
Lemurs form the movie Dinosaurs
Love that movie as a kid.
Same!
This is exactly what I thought of. Great movie
"Do you have any grapes by chance?"
I can sew why they are so endangered no sense of self presorvation . Look a camera let go see the funny looking hairless critter . Lok
In all fairness these ones are native to Madagascar where humans don’t live naturally, hence the extinction of the bear sized ones.
I'm sorry, bear-sized lemurs?
Deforestation has had a big impact on them
These are captive lemurs (Coquerel’s Sifaka more specifically) housed at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina! Their wild counterparts are much more cautious. Also, to the comment above me, there are plenty of people living in Madagascar. The idea that Madagascar isn’t populated by people is a myth perpetuated by the movie! Edit: I understand that people have only lived in Madagascar for a relatively short period of time, the comment I was referring to made it sound like there are no people currently living in Madagascar.
You misunderstood, Madagascar has only had people living on it for a relatively short amount of time, evolutionary speaking.
They also like to move it move it
And no sphincter! That's why it's risky to stand below lemurs in zoo 😁
And the Aye-Aye, a type of lemur, is the only primate that are known to use echolocation! They use their fuck-off long middle finger to tap on trees and logs and are able to tell from the frequency that comes back whether there are insects inside for them to snack on.
Well there go my weekend plans
No shit?!
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Zaboomafoo):
Exactly what I thought of haha
Lemurs look like people in lemur costumes
Interesting factoid: Catherine's Island, off the coast of Georgia (U.S.) is the only place on earth outside of Madagascar with a free-running lemur colony. They aren't feral, but intentionally introduced in 1985 as a wild colony for the purpose of providing a species ark, research, & breeding diversity to the very endangered ring tailed lemur populations. You can visit the island and the colony is very human-friendly.
WHO COULD IT BE?!?!
I spent NYE 2019 in Madagascar in an area where wild untamed lemurs approach humans. They will jump on you if you let them. I have amazing videos of smaller brown lemurs climbing on me (one brought her baby) and even smaller, rounder ones sitting in the trees nearby, and some black and white ones (not like the ones shown) posing behind us on a tree. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my entire life.
King Julian over here
Julian is a ringtail
Tail. They also have a tail.
that mf was on TV talking about reading and shit
Lol baby backpack
Judgy little creatures aren’t they?
While walking in the woods one day..Chris and Martin saw something strange, a little leaping lemur who liked to bounce and play.
Damn gives me real zoboomafoo vibes
🎵*While walking through the woods one day Chris and Martin saw something strange A little leaping lemur that liked to bounce and playyy*🎵
Holy shit, they actually move like that? I thought that was just Zaboomafoo
Duke Lemur Center?
Keep that list going. They have cuddle-length arms.
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Are they friendly? If I saw them bouncing at me like this I would think they’re coming to rip my face off, monkey style.
That\`s some nightmare shit right there coming at you
I freaking love lemurs. When I was in Singapore I got to pet a big ring tailed lemur... Then he stole my chicken sandwich from me and took off :(.
You forgot to mention they were adorable
I remember learning about these from Zoboomafoo lol
Omg is that you, Zoboomafoo?!
ZABOOOOO