Ring tailed lemurs in zoos.

[vichillman]

Hi there,

I don't know if anyone can help, but here goes. I'm currently writin gmy thesis for my MSC and have had trouble finding out the following.

Does anyone know how many of the zoos and wildlife parks in the UK and Ireland house ring-tailed lemurs?

Does anyone know how many of the zoos and wildlife parks in the world house ring-tailed lemurs?

Look forward to hearing from you.

Vic

Parallels H-Sphere

 

[taun]

This should help you,

http://app.isis.org/abstracts/abs.asp

It may not list everything and can be out of date but it's a good starting point.

 

[lintworm]

ZootierlisteHomepage

 

[foz]

ZootierlisteHomepage

- perhaps this would help?

I dont know about the rest of the world but in the Uk they're pratically everywhere, I mean you can't escape them

 

[Cat-Man]

yer foz is right, if you open a new zoo in england your almost garenteed to have bennets wallabys and ring tailed lemurs!

 

[vichillman]

that is true, I've found out that there are over 40 zoos in the UK and Ireland that house ring-tailed lemurs, quite shocking the variety of enclosures they are held in from naturalistic woodlands to tiny glass fronted, wire mesh barren enclosure.

Thank you for your help, look slike an interesting forum will have to have a closer look when I've written my thesis.

 

[Damson]

I would like to be interested in ring-tailed lemurs in mixed species exhibits. What kind of other species are keeping with ring-tailed lemurs and what size are this mixed species exhibits?
Probably has anybody got any infos about problems with ring-tailed lemurs in mixed species exhibits?

 

[James27]

A lot of zoos mix lemur species in walk throughs, for example Bristol kept them with red ruffeds and then mongoose lemurs. I think Cotswolds wildlife park maybe keeps them with red footed tortoises too (?), aswell as another lemur species.

 

[vichillman]

Hi,

Two out of the three zoos I have been studying at have ring-tailed lemurs in mixed species exhibits. One zoo they were in with a pari of mongoose lemurs, only recently been introduced, but there did seem to be some tension between the two. The other zoo had them in with white fronted brown lemurs, red fronted lemurs and black and white ruffed lemurs this exhibit is a 4 acre woodland with 8 sheds in it so plenty of room to be away from other species. I only observed a little bit of tension, normally around feeding time.

Hope this helps.

 

[vichillman]

Bristol now keep them with mongoose lemurs as the red-ruffed and ring-taileds didn't get on too well.

 

[James27]

Ah yeah, they told me last time I visited. And the red ruffeds are now on the island formally inhabited by another ringtailed group.

 

[vichillman]

yep, that's correct, they now only have the one group of ring-tails in the walk through.