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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A ring-tailed lemur stolen from the San Francisco Zoo has been found, police said Thursday. The 21-year-old male lemur named Maki was discovered missing shortly before the zoo opened to visitors on Wednesday. Investigators found evidence of a forced entry to the lemur enclosure. Someone called police Thursday evening to say …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A ring-tailed lemur stolen from the San Francisco Zoo has been found. The 21-year-old male lemur named Maki was discovered missing shortly before the zoo opened to visitors on Wednesday. Investigators found evidence of a forced entry to the lemur enclosure. Someone called police Thursday evening to say that Maki was …

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police say someone broke into the San Francisco Zoo overnight and stole a ring-tailed lemur. They said the 21-year-old male lemur named Maki was discovered missing shortly before the zoo opened to visitors Wednesday. Investigators found evidence of a forced entry to the lemur enclosure and processed the scene for evidence. …

Lemur species vary enormously in their size, appearance and behaviour, from the strange-looking nocturnal aye-aye to the sideways-leaping Coquerel’s sifaka. All species are endemic to the island of Madagascar, where they are under severe threat from fragmentation and loss of their forest habitat, due to logging, subsistence agriculture and forest fires, and are also at …