Before Madagascar, lemurs lived under the radar. Today, King Julien is a household name and some of us think about his silly quotes a little too often. Little did we know that lemurs are such amazing ...

Beautiful ring-tailed lemur becomes the focus as the expert wildlife handler shares interesting facts about this unique ...

Hear the tale of an animal the Malagasy people associate with night spirits. Find out why mouse lemurs are at-risk in the only country they call home.

Find out how this gregarious primate's ancestors may have made the trip from to the African mainland to Madagascar.

Where do lemurs come from and what are their origins? The ancestors of the lemurs would have arrived from Africa to Madagascar by natural floating rafts 65 million years ago. Then they evolved and ...

Madagascar's giant lemurs survived megadroughts and thousands of years of human hunters, yet vanished within centuries of a ...

Scientists suspect this musical trait arose independently in humans and indris, which split from a common ancestor some 74 ...

How do foraging animals find their food? A new study by New York University researchers shows that lemurs use smell, social cues, and long-term memory to locate hidden fruit—a combination of factors ...

New research shows that lemurs and their food trees are tightly linked in ecological networks, and that the extinction of lemurs will have cascading effects on ecosystem functions. Lemurs are the ...

What can lemurs tell us about inflammation and aging, aka "inflammaging" in humans? That's the question Elaine Guevara, a biological anthropologist who studies the evolution of life history and aging ...

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