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 ...

One of the world's rarest types of lemur has been successfully bred in Oxfordshire. The as-yet-unsexed and unnamed animal was born to parents Raphael and Bijou at Cotswold Wildlife Park.

Nature has a way of blurring the lines between reality and mythology, and some of its creations feel like they’ve leapt ...

There, at the top of the tree, is an Indri, which is the largest lemur in Madagascar ... this species has been on one branch of the tree of life now for over 40 million years, and so, over ...

It’s a feature that makes sense considering how important effective grooming is to lemur life; so-called “social grooming” is ...

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 ...

Microcebus murinus – a unique primate for modeling human brain disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy 8. Life history variation in mouse lemurs: the effect of ...

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 ...

Several dozen lemurs and more than 900 tortoises endemic to Madagascar that were trafficked to Thailand will be returned home this week, the Indian Ocean island-nation's environment ministry said ...

Thailand is sending almost 1,000 highly endangered lemurs and tortoises back to their home in Madagascar, in what both countries called their biggest ever operation against wildlife trafficking ...