Aug. 14th, 2012. This Madagascar area opened in 2007 and before this year represents the only major new exhibit complex in at least a decade or longer. There is an outdoor yard that has a ringed moat with a pair of American pelicans, but the grassy zone and rocks are all that the lemurs have to climb on as the two large trees are hotwired to death. Indoors there are 3 separate enclosures for a trio of species (ring-tailed, black-and-white ruffed and red-fronted lemurs) as well as a second, smaller outdoor yard. While the lemurs are entertaining to watch, especially when there are around 16 to see, and their building is a modern glass/wood structure; but they probably spend most of their lives indoors and for a fairly new habitat it seems to have failed its huge potential.
