Rare ‘dancing’ primates arrive at UK zoo

Rare ‘dancing’ primates have arrived at a UK zoo.

Conservationists at Chester Zoo have started the first conservation breeding programme in Europe for one of the world’s most endangered primates.

A pair of Coquerel’s Sifaka lemurs, a species listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation’s of Nature (IUCN) red list have become the first of their kind to ever set foot in Europe, after arriving from America.

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