Brookfield Zoo Lemurs Enjoy Thanksgiving Feast

Posted By : The Animal Facts Editorial Team

Date: November 27, 2020 11:05 am

Dogwood, a ring-tailed lemur at Brookfield Zoo, received a nutritious Thanksgiving feast

Photo Credit: Jim Schulz/Chicago Zoological Society

The ring-tailed lemur family at Brookfield Zoo have celebrated thanksgiving with a socially distanced feast. This is the seventh year that the lemur family has come together for the feast.

Ramses, a ring-tailed lemur at Brookfield Zoo, received a nutritious Thanksgiving feast

Photo Credit: Jim Schulz/Chicago Zoological Society

Keeper prepared a nutritious meal for ring-tailed lemurs – Moses, Dogwood, Ramses and Butch. This included a turkey made out of primate biscuits with honey, steamed corn and green beans, mashed potatoes with banana baby food for gravy, cranberry sauce made of sugar free gelatin and dried cranberries, and pumpkin and sweet potato pie with a primate biscuit crust and popcorn that served as whipped cream. They also received apple juice to wash it all down.

Ramses, a ring-tailed lemur at Brookfield Zoo, received a nutritious Thanksgiving feast

Photo Credit: Jim Schulz/Chicago Zoological Society

In keeping with 2020 the lemurs also practiced their social distancing. On the dinner table was a laptop with pictures of two of the lemurs which could not make it to the dinner in person.

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Brookfield Zoo is open for visitors for Thanksgiving with many families choosing to spend this day with the animals.