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Happy Wishlist Wednesday!🐾 Even with indoor air co Happy Wishlist Wednesday!🐾
Even with indoor air conditioning available 24/7, our lemurs still prefer being outside.To keep them safe and comfortable in the Florida heat🔥, we use outdoor fans, and cooling pads. 🧊❄️To help our colony stay cool; click the link in our bio or copy and paste this link! ⬇️
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When your snack looks like it might bite back! 🫣😂 When your snack looks like it might bite back! 🫣😂

Offering novel fruits like rambutan is a fantastic form of enrichment at LCF. It challenges our lemurs to use their natural foraging skills to figure out how to peel and eat new treats!
Infant Brienne is new to foraging but seems to get the hang of it!🥭🥝🌱
Happy #featurefriday We are thrilled to announce Happy #featurefriday 
We are thrilled to announce a new addition to our LCF family, a ring-tailed lemur infant!🤩🎉
Meet baby Avery, born on May 14th!
Avery is living with mom, Dalia, and dad, Goose—who are both experienced parents—along with 1-year-old big brother, Tusker!
While Avery is still often seen clinging tight to mom, this little one is getting more curious every day. From bouncing branch-to-branch to hanging out with Goose and Tusker, Avery is so fun to watch grow up!🌱✨
Avery is an absolute star in front of the camera and loves staring right at the lens for the best photos!🌟
LCF is sad to announce the recent passing of ring- LCF is sad to announce the recent passing of ring-tailed lemur, Ansell (L. catta). 
Ansell was diagnosed with terminal cancer that affected multiple tissue types in her body. It progressed very quickly post-diagnosis with no options for recovery.  Based on this information, the LCF staff and veterinarian decided that the best course of action for Ansell and her quality of life was to humanely euthanize. Ansell was 23 years old. 

Ansell came to LCF from a zoo in Quebec when she was 5 years old and lived her entire life in the forest enclosures with her mate, Yuengling, and their many offspring. Since Ansell’s arrival at LCF, she has given birth to 12 offspring that have since moved to other AZA facilities and started families of their own. Ansell has contributed greatly to the genetic composition and robust nature of the AZA ring-tailed lemur population and has been an exceptional ambassador for ring-tail conservation and education. 
Staff describe Ansell as calm, tough as nails, and maternal. They will always remember how she threw her medications in the dirt (requiring keepers to go and make them again - which she would then immediately take), and how she was a loving and devoted companion to her mate Yuengling. Ansell will be sincerely missed by her keepers and all of the volunteers, interns, and keepers that have worked with her in the past. She was a very special lemur, and LCF won’t be the same without her.♥️

Below is a link you can visit to to the 
Yuengling Senior Care Fund 
https://secure.qgiv.com/for/yuenglingseniorcarefund
Happy Wishlist Wednesday! 📋 Every day, our team a Happy Wishlist Wednesday! 📋

Every day, our team at LCF scrubs enclosures, preps diets, weighs animals, and creates enrichment to provide optimal care to our lemurs. 🫧Because we do all of these tasks daily, our essential supplies run out fast —and we need your help to restock!🧽
We’ve put together a Wishlist of daily essentials that keep our facility running and our lemurs thriving, including cozy blankets for indoor enclosures and practical tools like grape slicers to prep small training rewards efficiently! 🍇
Every item donated helps our keepers and the lemurs! 🐾 

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/38LT1BLKQYWL3?ref_=wl_share

#wishlistwednesday #lemur #lemurconservationfoundation
Happy Molson Monday and Happy #NationalWatermelonD Happy Molson Monday and Happy #NationalWatermelonDay from LCF! 🍉
Watermelon is an absolute favorite around here! It is a great seasonal part of our nutrition program since it is about 92% water, so it helps keep our lemurs refreshed and hydrated. It’s a versatile sweet treat that our staff can use in creative ways to enrich the lemurs as well.🐾☀️
To celebrate National Watermelon Day, our team made watermelon popsicles—and as you can tell, the lemurs had the best day celebrating!☺️🍉
What a wonderful day for watermelon and lemurs!
#molsonmonday #nationalwatermelonday #lemur
Happy National Sisters Day🐾 Meet sisters Fotaka a Happy National Sisters Day🐾

Meet sisters Fotaka and Fasika! They are 1 year old female, red-ruffed lemurs (V. rubra) that live together here at LCF. Fotaka and Fasika might bicker like any siblings, but these sisters always join forces when it’s time to keep their triplet brother Vovoka in check. 🤣Even in lemur colonies, sisters have each other’s backs!🫶🏼☀️
#nationalsistersday #lemur #lemurconservationfoundation #sisters
It’s #featurefriday ! Today, we’re putting Isabell It’s #featurefriday ! Today, we’re putting Isabelle in the spotlight! 🔆
Isabelle (nickname: Izzy) is an 8-year-old female collared lemur (E. collaris). She lives with her family—her mate, Vincent, and their kids, Ange and Donovan, and her youngest Brienne.🐾
Izzy is an amazing mom who has done a fantastic job raising her energetic group! These days, she spends most of her time with infant Brienne, who is still nursing, but her twins, Ange and Donovan, are often seen cuddling up with her too. Proof that a mother’s love never gets old!🫶🏼
Izzy loves chow more than ever to keep up her energy while nursing her growing baby! Izzy also enjoys her training time where she works on targeting, crate training, and more in exchange for some extra treats!🍌🍇
Stay tuned for next week’s feature!
#lemurconservationfoundation #lemur
Happy National Intern Day 🫶🏼 We at LCF want to say Happy National Intern Day 🫶🏼
We at LCF want to say a huge thank you to our hard-working interns. During their 3-month internship they are trained in AZA standards of care and daily monitoring of animal behavior and health. Throw in animal training, designing new enrichment, and exhibit modifications - these guys are busy!! 
Our enrichment intern, Carly, works hard to create new innovative enrichment for our lemur colony every day. 🪾

Y’all work hard every single day, and we appreciate everything you do for the lemurs and our team. Thank you! ☀️❤️
Ever wonder ​​what a daily routine looks like for Ever wonder ​​what a daily routine looks like for our amazing keepers at the Lemur Conservation Foundation? A huge part of it is enrichment! ✨

Lemurs are smart, curious, and complex primates. To keep them thriving, our team supplies daily enrichment that promotes natural behaviors like foraging , scent marking, & socializing!
With over 50 lemurs to care for, we provide fresh, exciting enrichment every single day—and we need your help to keep the fun going!

How you can support the troop today: 👉 Click the link to shop our Wishlist! 

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Tsikey is a 26-year-old male, red-ruffed lemur (V. Tsikey is a 26-year-old male, red-ruffed lemur (V. rubra). Tsikey is currently the oldest red-ruffed lemur at LCF! He shares an enclosure as well as free ranges in one of our forest enclosures with his family group. The way keepers and you can tell Tsikey apart from his family members is by looking out for his blue radio collar and broad squarish face. Tsikey also has a wider snout and a darker coat than his crew. 🩵

Personality wise Tsikey is a very sweet old man with a big heart as well as large eyes. 🐾🦋#lemurconservationfoundation
Happy Molson Monday! ✨🐾 Molson’s favorite part of Happy Molson Monday! ✨🐾
Molson’s favorite part of each day is when he’s eating, and when you to take a closer look into his mouth you can discover his 6 lower teeth are fused together into what is called a tooth-comb! 🦷

Fun fact: all prosimians have a tooth-comb. The tooth-comb is used for grooming their fur, and the fur of other members in their group, facilitating the important primate-behavior of social grooming. Grooming of group-mates not only strengthens bonds between members, but also benefits the overall health of the group by minimizing harmful bugs and parasites. 
Take a look at Molson, Khaleesi, Jolene, and Frezy showing off their tooth-combs!☀️
#lemur #molsonmonday #lemurconservationfoundation
As Zookeeper Appreciation Week comes to a close, L As Zookeeper Appreciation Week comes to a close, LCF wanted to acknowledge one last time how incredible its keepers are and the amazing work that they do. LCF is a smaller facility, so our keepers need to wear a lot of different hats and master many skills to ensure that the lemurs receive optimal care every day. In addition to cleaning enclosures, feeding, enriching, and training the animals our keepers are also auxiliary horticulturists, nutritionists, behaviorists, scientists, pharmacists, engineers, and even operators of heavy machinery. They will do anything and everything for their animals and will learn any skill necessary to ensure that each and every day is the best day ever. To the LCF keepers of the past and present, you have the sincere appreciation of Lemur Conservation Foundation and every single one of its lemur residents – THANK YOU!
Dani (L. catta) wanted to give a standing ovation Dani (L. catta) wanted to give a standing ovation to all her incredible keepers who take care of her every single day, rain or shine, on holidays, and on weekends - girl has to eat every day!  Zookeepers devote so much of their time and lives to a profession truly driven by the passion of those that are a part of it. Cheers to LCF keepers and Happy Zookeeper Week to every zookeeper out there that works diligently for the animals in their care!
Our final keeper shout-out is for LCF’s phenomenal Our final keeper shout-out is for LCF’s phenomenal senior keeper, Julia! Growing up, Julia rode horses and was a frequent guest at her local zoo. She wanted to be the one on the other side of the glass taking care of the animals and so she became a keeper! She first worked with lemurs at Duke Lemur Center as an intern and fell in love with their energetic and curious personalities. She is Tsikey’s (V. rubra) biggest fan, but she knows deep down that if she were a lemur, she’d probably be a ring-tail. LCF deeply appreciates Julia’s drive, dedication, and passion for both the animals and the keepers that she works with - thank you Julia!
Keeper Appreciation Week: Medical Highlight! Our Keeper Appreciation Week: Medical Highlight! 

Our amazing keepers contribute greatly to the medical care of the lemurs at LCF.  From the simple (and sometimes not so simple…) task of voluntarily medicating the animals, to the more complex tasks of training the lemurs to voluntarily enter a crate so they can travel to our veterinarian, keepers do it all!  Our lemurs receive general physicals every two years where they go see the vet and receive ultrasounds, radiographs, vaccines and other routine testing to make sure they are as healthy as possible. LCF vet staff are incredible and when one of our animals has a more chronic condition, they do everything they can to help - Jolene (E. collaris) even received acupuncture to treat her arthritis symptoms at her last routine physical!  Jolene voluntarily walked into her crate due to the diligent training of our staff and came home feeling much better than when she left!  LCF zookeepers will always go the extra mile for the lemurs, and the facility couldn’t accomplish what it has without them!
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