GEORGE TOWN: Dangling to a chair, an adult Sunda flying lemur was rescued after residents were shocked to find it hanging out ...

Lemurs are primates found only on the African island of Madagascar and some tiny neighboring islands. Because of its geographic isolation, Madagascar is home to many amazing animals found nowhere ...

Duke Lemur Center has more than a dozen species of lemurs ... Williams once thought she might become a forest ranger, or a pilot. “I love flying,” Williams said. “And I love hiking and backpacking in ...

There are more than 20 species of mouse lemurs, and several have been identified only in recent years. This is a rarity in primate research, and illustrates just how much remains to be known about ...

Although there are more than 100 species of lemurs, the ring-tailed lemur is arguably the most well-known thanks to King Julien in the hit children’s film Madagascar. His need to “move it ...

Many of these lemurs have incredibly high levels of genetic diversity, yet paradoxically, almost all—90%—of the more than 100 species that live on the island are threatened with extinction.

Almost every species of lemur, wide-eyed primates unique to Madagascar, is under threat of extinction. That is the conclusion of an international group of conservationists, who carried out an ...

Given the threat to lemurs in the wild, it is essential to determine how human-induced habitat change is affecting their health. In 2003 a survey on the health and disease ecology of wild ring-tailed ...

Ring-tailed lemurs look different! They retain a number of primitive mammalian traits. For example: Reflective tapetum lucidum, which is a layer of cells in the wall of the eye that reflects light ...