The broad-nosed gentle lemurs are one of the world's rarest species
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A wild animal park in Kent has launched an urgent appeal for more bamboo to feed a pair of its rarest animals.
Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, near Hythe, recently became home to a pair of broad-nosed gentle lemurs.
The animals are listed as being among the top 25 most critically endangered animals in the world, with only 300 of them thought to be left in the wild.
They eat large amounts of giant bamboo, but keepers at the park say it does not have enough to sustain their appetites.
Their natural habitat is in and around the Ranomafana National Park of south eastern Madagascar, Africa.
They live in rainforests and eat the giant bamboo by stripping away the outer layers to get to the inner pith.
The animal park grows its own bamboo to feed other animals, mainly its pandas, but has not got enough to feed the new lemurs too.
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