Lemurs are so cool!

Ireland
March 12, 2007 1:53pm CST
I love going to the zoo and watching them. I've just uploaded a bunch of lemur photos (to the Lemurs list) I took at the Dublin Zoo. Have a look and tell me what you think of lemurs.
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@kiiizu (1901)
• Estonia
12 Mar 07
Unfortunately I couldn't see them. No lemurs, no pictures. I like them also, wonderful animals, especially the ones with striped tails! Perhaps we should go to Madagaskar to see them in the nature.
@seamonkey (1976)
• Ireland
12 Mar 07
I think you have to add it to your interest list. I found it under 'pets I like', and the subheading, 'lemurs'. There were half a dozen photos listed there.
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@kiiizu (1901)
• Estonia
12 Mar 07
MyLot indeed offered me to add lemurs as pets but it wouldn't be true. I like lemurs very much but not as pets! By the way, aren't they endangered species? Let them live on Madagascar!
@seamonkey (1976)
• Ireland
13 Mar 07
No kidding, can you imagine having them as a pet? I think it's just an easy way to find the subject. I found this info on their habitat at http://nationalzoo.si.edu Distribution and Habitat Lemurs survive only on the island of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean (shown in green), and on the neighboring Comoros islands. The various species of lemurs can be found in habitats as different as the lush, wet, rainforest of eastern Madagascar and the very dry spiny desert in the southwest.
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
12 Mar 07
I think lemurs are really cool, primative primates. They have cute faces (something I don't think most monkeys or apes have.) I go to zoos to look at giraffes and the cats.
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@seamonkey (1976)
• Ireland
12 Mar 07
There's something about them that I find mildly creepy although I like them. They remind me a little bit of possums.
@Morticia (419)
13 Mar 07
I adore lemurs, they are actually so cool and cute :D Especially with those big eyes and tails... Unfortunatelly, I still haven't got a chance to see them, because non of the zoo's in my country can keep lemurs, but I have a huge collecion of their pictures :}
@seamonkey (1976)
• Ireland
12 Mar 07
I love lemurs, too, but not as much as my youngest son. He has managed to collect 3 different styles of stuffed lemurs and is always on the lookout for more. They are FREAKY looking!!
@irdsm1 (288)
• United States
17 Apr 08
Unfortunately lemurs are endangered. Ringtail lemurs are actually one of the most successfully captive bred primates . They are pretty common in zoos around the US. Sadly even with the surplus of available lemurs they cannot be kept as pets without a license to keep endangered primates, which generally requires you to have past experiences with primates. Dan