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15:38 January 9th, 2008

Well I’ll be a ring-tailed lemur!

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Oddly Enough, ,

lemur-2-160.jpgA zoo in England is renovating for the first time in years, and they’re letting the animals have a direct role in making the decisions, which is really gonna slow things down. I have a bunch of animals of my own, and I would never ask for their opinions on important stuff.

Anyway, lemurs are among the worst - they are nature’s original micro-managers. This guy here is demanding that his section’s ancient transport vehicle, the “Lemur Steamer,” be replaced with a spiffy new red “Lemur Beemer” convertible.

The zoo’s immediate response? “You must be a lemur dreamer!”

Zookeepers also said he should get used to drinking his Starbuck’s black, and they turned down his demand for “lemur creamer.”

lemur1-300.jpgZoo conservation researcher Chloe Inskip counts Ring-Tailed Lemurs as part of Chester Zoo’s annual stock take in Chester , northern England, January 8, 2008. REUTERS/Phil Noble

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9 comments so far

What’s that you said? Obama? Got it.

- Posted by John C Abell

He’s actually trying to influence the surveyor. Does that make him a lemur schemer?

- Posted by Charlene

I like to move it, move it!
She like to move it, move it!

- Posted by Lady Weasel

[thought bubble] ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c.’ Stupid human.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Looks like Pepi got into the chihuaua cage again. Lemurs? Never mind.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

No, it’s not a bowl full of watermelon, it’s a sailboat. Lemurs suck at Scattergories and you are welcome to tell all your lemur friends I said so.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

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