A 21-year-old ring-tailed lemur named Maki was stolen from the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens overnight, police say.
Maki, 21 years old, was found missing from the Lipman Family Lemur Forest, which is the largest outdoor habitat for lemurs in the United States. That habitat has seven types of lemurs, but no other animals were reported missing.
“As one of our oldest lemurs, Maki requires a specialized diet. Of the 19 lemurs here, at 21.5 years, he has exceeded median life expectancy of 16.7 years, but is also one of the slowest, and we believe, likely, the easiest to catch," Watters said.In 2018, Aquinas Kasbar of Newport Beach broke into the Santa Ana Zoo after it had closed for the night and used bolt cutters to steal a ring-tailed lemur named Isaac.
Isaac, which was 32 years old and the oldest ring-tailed lemur in captivity in North America — was left outside a Newport Beach hotel the next day in a plastic container with a note saying the animal belonged to the zoo.
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