Detroit Zoo seeks suggestions to name lemur twins

Associated Press

ROYAL OAK, Mich. – The Detroit Zoo’s new lemurs need names.

The zoo wants the public to pick names for the black-and-white ruffled lemur twins, one male and one female, born June 2.

Names can be submitted through the zoo’s Web site through Sept. 2. Five male and five female names will be selected by staff and posted online for a public vote.

Director of Conservation and Animal Welfare Scott Carter says the lemurs are native to Madagascar, so officials hope proposed names will pay homage to the primates’ Malagasy origins.

The zoo held an online poll in 2005 to choose a name for its newborn polar bear. Voters chose Talini, which supposedly means “snow angel” in Inuit. Experts said the name wasn’t Inuit and came from a joke list on the Internet, but the name stuck.

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