In last week’s blog post, I talked about the preliminary data that I had collected on the lemurs’ behavior. This week, I am showing the final data after both rounds of changes had been made to their exhibits. The first factor I looked at to determine the success of the changes made was the lemurs’ […]

Now that my senior project is coming to an end, I can finally share the data I collected and the conclusions that I have reached. When collecting data, I decided to look at a couple of factors. The first one is how much time is spent on the ground. When I began this project, time […]

As proven by the success of adjusting the material inside the nesting box, small changes can make a huge difference. I noticed that the majority of the time that the lemurs spend on the ground is while eating. With almost all their food scattered on the floor throughout the exhibit, the lemurs have no way […]

This week I visited San Francisco Zoo to look at their lemur exhibit. As the largest outdoor lemur exhibit in the United States with seven species of lemurs including red ruffed lemurs, of course, it seemed like the perfect comparison. To properly set up this comparison, however, I have to point out that San Francisco […]