There are only a few of their kind left in the world, they are critically endangered. So the joy in Cologne about the offspring of the large bamboo lemurs should be all the greater.
Cologne – Big googly eyes and tiny hands: The Cologne Zoo is happy about the offspring of the big bamboo lemurs. Mother Izy still carries her boy Dakari around the clock, as the zoo announced on Thursday.
The primacy was born in early May. Mother Izy and father Woody have already raised offspring together several times.
According to the zoo, large bamboo lemurs actually live in two small rainforest areas in the north and east of Madagascar. Hence the name of the young animal: Dakari means "joy" in Malagasy. "In just a few weeks, the little one will detach itself from mother Izy's belly and start climbing trees and branches in the Madagascar house on its own," it said.
According to its own statements, the zoo in Cologne is the only zoo in Germany that keeps and breeds the endangered species. Worldwide, the population of large bamboo lemurs has shrunk to a few hundred animals. dpa
