Yorkshire Wildlife Park: Adorable lemurs rehomed due to Bristol Zoo closure are 'doing great'

Yorkshire Wildlife Park has joined conservation centres across the UK in giving a home to animals from Bristol Zoo, which is closing after 186 years.
By Robert Cumber
Published 2nd Sep 2022, 12:33 BST
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The zoo in Clifton will shut its gates for good on Saturday, September 3, amid financial pressures blamed on the Covid pandemic, and open a new attraction at its Wild Place Project site in south Gloucestershire.

New homes elsewhere around the country have had to be found for some of its residents, including three endangered crowned lemurs, who were taken in earlier this year by Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster.

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Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster has taken in three crowned lemurs from Bristol Zoo, which is closing after 186 yearsYorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster has taken in three crowned lemurs from Bristol Zoo, which is closing after 186 years
Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster has taken in three crowned lemurs from Bristol Zoo, which is closing after 186 years

A spokesman for the park said: “They’ve settled in well and they’re doing great.”

The cute trio from Bristol are enjoying life at Lemur Woods, where they have ring tailed and red bellied lemurs for company.

They are among more than 400 animals at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

Bristol Zoo opened its doors in in 1836, making it the fifth oldest zoo in the world.

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