Shaldon Wildlife Trust is delighted that Jack and his son Jackson have come to join their group of bachelor male red-ruffed lemurs. Jack was actually born at Shaldon and went to Paignton Zoo in 1999 to start their group of red-ruffed lemurs and bred successfully there. However as their new lemur walk-through exhibit will only have females Paignton asked if we would take Jack back at Shaldon along with his son. So we now have 3 generations with Thiemo, the father now living with Jude and Jack his sons and Jackson, his grandson.

This critically endangered lemur is native to the island of Madagascar and inhabits its eastern evergreen rainforests. Their preference for large fruiting trees has made them particularly vulnerable from logging practices