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Celebrity lemur from 'Zoboomafoo' dies and social media reacts

Visitors tour a lemur enclosure at the Duke Lemur Center on March 31, 2014, in Durham, North Carolina. The Duke Lemur Center was home to Jovian,  star of the PBS wildlife show for kids, "Zoboomafoo." Jovian, 20, died Monday.
Visitors tour a lemur enclosure at the Duke Lemur Center on March 31, 2014, in Durham, North Carolina. The Duke Lemur Center was home to Jovian,  star of the PBS wildlife show for kids, "Zoboomafoo." Jovian, 20, died Monday.
Nov 12, 2014

Celebrity lemur Jovian, the star of the PBS wildlife show for kids, "Zoboomafoo", died at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, N.C., Monday. He was 20 years old.

"He'd jump in through the window and we'd feed him mangoes or garbanzo beans. Sometimes he'd grab our noses with those soft sifaka hands," co-host Martin Kratt said on Facebook.

Social media response to Jovian's passing was touching. Here is a look at some of those social media posts:

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