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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Pet Island > Lemur awareness thread!
 
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Cockmaster
Feb 24, 2002

Mattis posted:

By the way, many zoos do allow direct contact with them. You are obviously not allowed to just grab them or to run after them. But if they choose to come to you on their own (and ONLY then) no one is gonna complain if you touch them a little bit.

The Nagasaki Bio Park has a free-range lemur exhibit where you can buy food out of vending machines to feed the lemurs (as well as monkeys, capybaras, kangaroos, and a bunch of other animals):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKoGkI2kA78

I've been thinking about going to Japan eventually, but the problem is that almost everything else I'm interested in (Akihabara, Tokyo Disneyland, unique arcade games and vending machines, pachinko, animal cafes, Robot Restaurant, other robot-related stuff) is in Tokyo.

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Cockmaster
Feb 24, 2002

Mattis posted:

By the way, many zoos do allow direct contact with them. You are obviously not allowed to just grab them or to run after them. But if they choose to come to you on their own (and ONLY then) no one is gonna complain if you touch them a little bit.
Ruffed lemurs can actually be pretty cuddly if they are used to visitors and if you know the right spots (under the arms because they have scent glands there and behind the ears for example).
Naturally this still depends on the zoo though! Many of them are part of breeding programs with the goal of putting them back into the wild.

Are there any good zoos for that in Germany, ideally in or near Munich?

Edit: Or Karlsruhe?

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