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Recycle, Donate and Participate in our Lemur Enrichment Program and Green Initiative!

Feeding the lemurs out of cardboard boxes and tubes of varying shapes and sizes enriches the lemurs' daily activities and also eliminates continually washing and sterilizing food bowls. After the lemurs have discovered and eaten their food, the box is thrown into our recycling bin and thus recycled twice!

If you wish to participate, send us clean cardboard boxes or cardboard tubes with all loose paper, glue or plastic removed. Nothing too big (larger than large cereal box) or too small (tooth paste tube box). Nothing that contained chemicals or detergents.

Examples of what we're looking for: cereal boxes, pasta boxes, cookie or cracker boxes, toilet paper tubes, paper towel tubes

For where to send click here

Enrichment is a term used when keepers are trying to increase stimulation of captive animals. Enrichment takes many forms, including altering objects in their habitats (moving branches, adding ladders,etc.), providing novel objects (non-toxic and non-swallowable, of course), using spices and oils to add scents to objects, and altering the presentation of food. The lemurs find it challenging to open the boxes and pull out the food inside. They have to manipulate the box and do a bit of problem solving - so it takes a bit longer to eat but provides a more fulfilling eating experience. Lemurs in captivity don't have to forage, so keepers try to make up for this lack of natural behavior by having the lemurs "forage" in the boxes.

2008 LCF Calendars are here!

The painting "Mayotte Island Brown Lemur" by Jay H. Matternes is beautifully reproduced on our 2008 calendar. The limited edition LCF calendars are prized collector's items and have featured the work of artists from around the world.
Go to theMalagasy Lemur Shop to order yours!

Animal Husbandry Internships

Two new 6-month animal husbandry internships are currently available. First deadline is November 30, 2007.Click here for more information.

Just Out - Lemur Latitudes October 2007 Newsletter

Read our latest newsletter - Click here

Lemur Power Bracelets

Check theMalagasy Lemur Shop to order yours!

Lemurs from Canada and Philly

Three mongoose lemurs, one from Philadelphia and two from Calgary, Canada, will be arriving at the reserve in time for Thanksgiving. Two ring-tailed lemurs from Quebec also made the long trip south to join our colony.

The red ruffed triplets!

See article in the Sarasota Herald Tribune -

Manatee center experiences lemur fever

Photographs by Larry Roberts and Ruth Petzold.

Photographs by Martha Kiser

NyTsididy Bitika / Bitika the mouse lemur (children's book)

This soft-cover children’s book is the charming sequel to our Ako the Aye-Aye book. It is now available in ourMalagasy Lemur Shop along with the Ako book and proceeds from both are used for environmental education in Madagascar!

Updated 2008-04-29