Our lemurs are housed in a variety of ways at various times of
the year, depending on the species, the weather, and the animals
in question. This housing allows us to both provide enriching
environments for our animals, and facilitate research that can
be carried out directly in animal enclosures. Most of our
diurnal animals live in caged enclosures with indoor/outdoor
access. Typically, a group will have one cell per animal, so
that a group of four lemurs, for example, will have access to
four connecting indoor cells with four connecting outdoor yards.
Thus they are set up for both research trials that require
access to any animal singly or any combination of animals from
that group as they can be easily shifted to accommodate the
needs of the researcher. During the warm weather (approximately
mid-April to mid-October) over half of our diurnal colony has
access to free-range enclosures ranging in size from 1.6 to 14.3
acres. Most of these enclosures contain multiple species and are
ideal for observation stud