If this rare Madagascan primate in San Francisco can find peace and calm, what’s not to say us bipedal apes can’t?
Sitting in a yoga squat, eyes gazed intentionally forward, and hands gently placed in its lap, this lemur is getting grounded in its meditation, and we are here for it. (The image, posted by the SF Zoo years ago [that just came back into our memory], has made our day.)
Long gone does it seem the days of the San Francisco Zoo (along with the Oakland Zoo, for that matter) closing amid COVID-19 protections; the San Francisco Zoo offered only advanced reservations and limited capacity up until the latter half of 2021 — a year that almost saw the SF Zoo (and Oakland Zoo, again) become extinct themselves amid loss of revenue. For months, guests — the main revenue source for zoos and aquariums — weren’t allowed to enter their faunal halls. Thankfully, that’s all now behind us.
May we never again take for granted the opportunities to see octopi, gorillas, and now not one, but two Komodo dragons through the looking glass again at the San Francisco Zoo. And when you’re there, check out the lemur exhibit to see if you can find some zen.
