co-CONSPIRATORS

CONSPIRACY has got a rather bad reputation of late – theoretically speaking… But the origins of the word are from the Latin conspirare which is to act in harmony and is rooted in spirare or to breathe. The PATRIARCHY is the longest running show on earth, so lets flip the script and breathe a little life and harmony into that in a Lemur sort of way.

Not only is a group of Lemurs called a CONSPIRACY they are truly one of the matriarchal darlings of the animal QUEENdom. So run along King Julien – you’ve got to MOVE IT MOVE IT! The Agatha lemur also comes complete with an alarmingly elongated middle finger – I think I could find a use for that…

“There’s a lot of strife, but most of the time, it’s understood,” she said. “Everyone falls in line. … There’s not the violence in a (lemur) female-dominated society. They don’t use it, they don’t need it, they just have control. Do the females beat the males up? Yeah, but not to a pulp.”

Britt Keith primate technician supervisor at the Duke Lemur Center