England s Chester Zoo Welcomes Rare Dancing Lemurs for Conservation Breeding Program
On 5/27/21 at 5:33 PM EDT
These lemurs were born to dance!
Earlier today, England s Chester Zoo announced to its Facebook page that it was welcoming a pair of incredibly rare dancing lemurs as part of its conservation breeding program to help save the species from extinction. The pair female Beatrice and male Elliot made the 4,000-mile journey to England from the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina.
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Called Coquerel s sifaka lemurs, these tiny dancers are native to the island of Madagascar. But sadly, due to deforestation, the zoo says that the species has experienced an 80% decrease in population size over the last 30 years. As a result, the lemurs are now listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature s (IUCN) Red List.