#black and white ruffed lemur

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Some art from camp last week.

(If you want to see all the art that is spesifically Invader ZiM art, it’s linked [HERE] )

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Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur

By Xin Zhong of Shanghai, China

African Wildlife Photography Awards

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“Black-and-white ruffed lemur Wiley suns himself at the Zoo's Lemur Island exhibit.” via

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the hand is a zookeeper btw!

📍 Knuthenborg Safaripark, Denmark

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A few more critters for Art Fight- Zuri the Ethiopian wolf for fawnfluff, Otto the black and white ruffed lemur for knifeboy, and Cavendish the Tasmanian devil for CavnedishDevil!

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black and white ruffed lemur

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Vari noir et blanc - Les femelles constituent le noyau du groupe et participent activement à la défense de leur territoire.

Lieu : Pairi Daiza, Belgique

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Brehm's Tierleben. Written by Alfred Brehm. Illustration by Gustav Mützel. 1922 edition.

Internet Archive

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gotta make sure my characters stay clean and presentable!

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Swing out sister ... one of two baby black-and-white ruffed lemur pups at Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park, near Stirling, Scotland. The critically endangered lemur pups, both female, were born on 14 April. They have been named Nova, meaning “new”, and Evie, meaning “life” - Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

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Balidu Zoo Lemur House

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A black-and-white ruffed lemur

PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL SOUDERS, GETTY IMAGES

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The Best News of Last Week - May 15, 2023

🐕 - Now It's a Paw-ty

1. World's oldest ever dog celebrates 31st birthday

Bobi was born on 11 May 1992, making him 31 years old, in human years. A big birthday party is planned for Bobi today, according to Guinness World Records.

It will take place at his home in the rural Portuguese village of Conqueiros in Leiria, western Portugal, where he has lived his entire life.

2. The FDA has officially changed its policy to allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that they’ve eased restrictions on blood donations by men who have sex with men in an effort to address blood shortages. The new policy recommends a series of individual risk-based questions that will apply to all donors, regardless of their sexual orientation, sex, or gender. Gay or bisexual men in monogamous relationships will now be permitted to donate blood.

3. Illinois passes bill to ensure community college credits transfer to public universities

The Illinois General Assembly has passed a bill that would help community college students transfer to public universities.

It would ensure that certain classes taken at community colleges could be transferred to any higher education institution in the state. Some schools currently only count community college coursework as elective credits.

4. Brazilian President Lula recognizes 6 new indigenous territories stretching 620,000 hectares, banning mining and restricting farming within them

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has decreed six new indigenous reserves, banning mining and restricting commercial farming there. The lands - including a vast area of Amazon rainforest - cover about 620,000 hectares (1.5m acres).

Indigenous leaders welcomed the move, but said more areas needed protection.

5. More than 1,000 trafficking victims rescued in separate operations in Southeast Asia

More than 1,000 trafficking victims were rescued in separate operations in Southeast Asia over the last week, officials in Indonesia and the Philippines said. 

Indonesian officials said Sunday they freed 20 of their nationals who were trafficked to Myanmar as part of a cyber scam, amid an increase in human trafficking cases in Southeast Asia. Fake recruiters had offered the Indonesians high-paying jobs in Thailand but instead trafficked them to Myawaddy, about 567 kilometers (352 miles) south of Naypyidaw, the capital, to perform cyber scams for crypto websites or apps, said Judha Nugraha, an official in Indonesia's Foreign Affairs Ministry.

6. A peanut allergy patch is making headway in trials

An experimental “peanut patch” is showing some promise for toddlers who are highly allergic to peanuts. The patch, called Viaskin, was tested on children ages one to three for a late-stage trial, and the results show that the patch helped children whose bodies could not tolerate even a small piece of peanuts safely eat a few.

After one year, two-thirds of the children who used the patch and one-third of the placebo group met the trial’s primary endpoint. The participants with a less sensitive peanut allergy could safely tolerate the peanut protein equivalent of eating three or four peanuts.

7. Critically endangered lemur born at Calgary Zoo

The Calgary Zoo has released pictures of its newest addition, a baby lemur. The zoo says its four-year-old female black-and-white ruffed lemur, Eny, gave birth on April 7. The pup’s father is eight-year-old Menabe. The gender of the pup has not been confirmed but the Calgary Zoo says the pup appears bright-eyed and active and is on the move.

The black-and-white ruffed lemur is registered among the 25 most endangered primates in the world, due mostly to habitat loss and hunting.

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aaAAH I commissioned @vaspider for a lemur Hawaiian shirt and it came today (faster than I was expecting! I didn’t think it’d make it here ‘til May) and it’s good! The pattern is great (I asked for black and white ruffed lemurs specifically because I love them, and the pride flag flowers so it’s stealth pride) it’s a nice lightweight fabric.

I won’t keep gushing about it but new favorite shirt

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Have primate questions? Want to ask a zookeeper? Let me know!

I'll be in conversation with volunteers and employees of the Calgary Zoo where they have:

Western lowland gorillas

Mandrills

Black and white colobus monkeys

Japanese macaques

Lar gibbons

Red fronted, ring tail, and black and white ruffed lemurs

Questions on any of these species, or zoo work in general? Send me an ask and I'll pass your question along to get you the insider scoop.