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Zurich is about the last place in the world you'd expect to see a red-ruffed lemur or panther chameleon - in the middle of the alpine winter, no less. But the city's zoo on Zurichbergstrasse is a tropical jungle all year round. The 10,000-sq-m greenhouse is one of the world's largest man-made rain forests: its humidity and temperature faithfully re-create the climate and ecosystem of the endangered rain forest on Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula...
Spotting a lemur - an endangered primate indigenous to Madagascar - is a matter of luck; you have a better chance of seeing one in the morning before they retreat to an island built on an artificial lake. After all, as in any jungle, the idea is to try to see the animals in their natural habitat, rather than their cages. But even if you don't get to see the elusive lemur, you may encounter one of over 100 other animals living among the lush vegetation, such as the grey mouse maki, the aye-aye, the tree boa or the girdled...
Zurich is about the last place in the world you'd expect to see a red-ruffed lemur or panther chameleon-in the middle of the alpine winter, no less. But the city's zoo on Zurichbergstrasse is a tropical jungle all year round. The 10,000-sq-m greenhouse is one of the world's largest man-made rain forests: its humidity and temperature faithfully re-create the climate and ecosystem of the endangered rain forest on Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula...
...Spotting a lemur-an endangered primate indigenous to Madagascar-is a matter of luck; you have a better chance of seeing one in the morning before they retreat to an island built on an artificial lake. After all, as in any jungle, the idea is to try to see the animals in their natural habitat, rather than their cages. But even if you don't get to see the elusive lemur, you may encounter one of over 100 other animals living among the lush vegetation, such as the grey mouse maki, the aye-aye, the tree boa or the girdled...
There was once a lemur who wagered 200 acorns against an ice weasel and lost. Stupid lemur...