Others look like skunks. The last two, well, they look like themselves. The male is black. The female is orangy-brown. And they have blue eyes.
Lemurs are the only primates other than humans in which blue eyes are normal, according to the zoo.
Lemurs hail from Madagascar, an island off the east coast of Africa, which is where eight of the Zoo's lemurs came from. The blue-eyed lemurs are on permanent loan from the Duke University Primate Center in North Carolina. The antics of the primates delighted their audience. Meaghan Williams, her daughter, said she cried when her mother told her what happened to the occupants of her favorite exhibit. But yesterday was a good first step toward wiping that memory away.