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Just interested but how long could a creature like that survive in the wild? Id imagine it could live quite happily in a forest, considering its full of bugs and leaves, was just on my mind!
 
A red panda escaped from Birmingham Nature Centre lived for a few weeks in peoples back gardens and was totally fine, I'd assume a lemur would do just as well if not better.
 
I've no idea where they would house the colobus. I wonder if the open-topped red-ruffed lemur enclosure is being used for them.
 
On the map on their website, it already shows the colobus in what was the black and white ruffed lemur enclosure, and they have in turn been moved into what was the red ruffed lemur enclosure. I don't know where the red ruffeds have gone!
 
Thanks - I'm surprised, the enclosure marked for colobus is a former aviary for white storks, later ibis and egrets, and it wasn't so big for them, the lemurs looked okay in this but again it wasn't the biggest of cages for 5-7 adult lemurs. Unless they plan to expand it, but there's not really anywhere they could expand it into....
 
Port Lympe have a lot of colobus monkeys so they are probably ones theyve bred, I would be surprised if they were bringing in new animals.
 
The press release states that these are from Port Lympne. Not sure whether they will be Kikuyu colobus or the less widely-kept occidentalis subspecies which, according to ISIS are only held in three institutions. It is possible that, if they are Kikuyu's, they may be Howlett's-bred animals coming from PL ie an established group, however if they are occidentalis I am sure they would have been bred at PL.
 
Qui, a female Red Panda has arrived from Les Sables, France. She's currently off show due to quarentine but will hopefully make her debut in Spring 2012
 
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