Lemur Denied: Alasdair Preston Photographs Mouse Rescue

by Jordan Yerman | September 7, 2009 at 12:46 pm

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Lucky mouse or unlucky lemur: depends on how you look at it. Predator-prey relationships against a human environment were writ small at the Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland last week, when a lemur nearly got hold of a field mouse. Just as the monkey was about to grab hold of the hapless mouse, a zookeeper leaped to the rescue, and it was lemur: denied.

Alasdair Preston got the action on camera, as you can see via the link below.

The Monkeys Channel would be the poorer without this story.

"He went straight over and scooped the mouse up out of harm's way. He carried him out and put him in a field.

"It was definitely a lucky escape. I'm sure the lemur wouldn't have let him go if it'd managed to get hold of him properly.

"Everyone was laughing about it and I'm just glad I managed to get it on film."

I take issue with the lemur being described as "creepy"; it's hard to look cute next to such a photogenic field mouse. That's not the lemur's fault at all.