Lemur help! Vet help! Anybody ... help?

The only thing I know about lemurs, I learned from watching these guys...

AAAAAAAH pictures of furry animals I get ...

actually I've often thought that about stripey-tail cats; they look like black-and-white ringtail lemurs.

Anyway, it's not a real lemur, but they look and rather act like them ... it's a young slow loris. No no, not in the head; that's what it is. A Slow Loris.

One rained down from the sky into my brother's yard and was attempting to steal their mynah bird's food. It looked hungry so they gave it something to eat. I'm pretty sure they're stuck with it now. This is in the middle of one of the world's biggest urban centers ...

This sort of thing, yes, it happens to all three siblings. I'm the normal boring one in the family, and that's no joke.

There are some fun videos on youtube about the slow loris.  They like sticky rice rolled into a ball.  They're very slow and very cute.  

Don't know how much help that was...

They like to move it, and are dumber than penguins.

Not really... 

This is a Lemur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk5LymKPJw8  

This is a Slow Loris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18-xvIjH8T4  

ETA, I don't know why I can't attach a hyperlink anymore...

Slow Loris -- they're nocturnal tree-dwelling animals, and are cute.

Okay, that taps me out for knowledge.

All true! I watched Madagascar 3 with my kids last night. All true!

Well ... just in case anybody wanted any actual and good information about slow lorises

http://www.internationalanimalrescue.org/projects/25/Saving+the+slow+loris.html

What's the other venomous mammal? The elusive platypoodle?

When did we bring-up platy-animals?  

By the way, FWIW, Platypus are posionous...

They have a poison barb at the end of their front flippers. They also use electrolocation to find food. So they have the bill like a duck, body of a beaver, poison like a scorpion, and electrolocation like a shark, they lay eggs like a bird, and nurse their young like a cow.  Amazing animal...

And Phineas and Ferb have one for a pet who can defeat Doofenschmirtz on a daily basis.

Shoo-bee-doo-bee-doo-ba PERRRRR-REEEE!

And if anyone ever needed proof that God smokes pot, there it is....

Ahhhh, Matt's a fan. Me likey to.

This lemur wants to fight.

I don't know where your brother lives, but here is the link for an international primate rescue and rehabilitation center on the island of Java. http://www.internationalanimalrescue.org/projects/23/Ciapus+primate... is a link for a loris rescue project in Tailand. http://www.warthai.org/product.php?id=7.

Sorryabout the formatting of this post. I'm on my iPad and there doesn't seem to be anyway to make returns stick within the text (or at least not that I know of!).

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Use the < key, then the p, then the > key.  That's a "backspace" in programming talk. 

Thanks!

The emergency was that it looked very young, which it seems to be, and hungry. At the moment it dropped into their yard (in a howling gale, so it really kind of did just blow in, but immediately started trying to get the papaya in the mynah's enclosure), my brother and his family knew very little about them, although they'd seen adults before, which this one was clearly not. So they were concerned it was motherless and maybe dehydrated or injured in the storm.

Thank you Dr. Leah

Anyway ... it looks like they're stuck with it. My mom's best friend runs an orangutan rescue/transition center (and every other kind of creature it seems) at the zoo but she's full up on apes right now, the zoo itself is kinda awful though it's getting better and it won't take them, and my brother contacted the Ciapis center first thing this morning (same one Gretchen linked here) but no dice.

While frankly the little thing (it's a girl) hit the animal-rescue lotto by ending up with one of us, yes, overall, these situations are a tragedy. The wildlife trade in Indonesia is abominable. Not much more to say about that. Apparently it's right around weaning age anyway, which doesn't mean anything as it was likely taken from its mother earlier and or its mother died (or worse, was killed) ... but it's happy to eat fruit and they'll be supplementing with worms and insects. If it's got any chance, believe me, one of my siblings or I would be it.