Two critically endangered baby lemurs have joined the Central Park Zoo troop.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The black-and-white ruffed lemur twins were born on April 5, and can now be seen at the zoo\u2019s \u201cTropic Zone\u201d exhibit, the Wildlife Conservation Society said in a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The pair of fraternal twins includes a male named Maso and a female named Tonga.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
A pair of lemurs was born at the Central Park Zoo
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They can now be seen at the zoo\u2019s \u201cTropic Zone\u201d exhibit
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Since 2008, when the species first arrived at the zoo, eight babies have been born<\/p>\n
Since 2008, when the species first arrived at the zoo, eight babies have been born, according to WCS.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Native to eastern Madagascar, black-and-white ruffed lemurs are considered critically endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their numbers in the wild have dropped by at least 80% over three generations, \u201cdue primarily to habit loss and poaching,\u201d WCS said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Black-and-white ruffed lemurs are typically born in multi-infant litters, the release noted. Mothers put their \u201cpups\u201d in tree nests instead of carrying them on their backs like most other primates.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The creatures have \u201ccomplex social hierarchies and stand out among primates as uniquely matriarchal,\u201d the release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
WCS said Koa, the twins\u2019 mother, leads Central Park\u2019s troop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two critically endangered baby lemurs have joined the Central Park Zoo troop.\u00a0 The black-and-white ruffed lemur twins were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2296,25,231,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,114601,27],"class_list":["post-302330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-top-stories","tag-human-interest","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-sophia-mcvige","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}