By Mongabay.com The indri, a critically endangered lemur only found in Madagascar’s rainforest, might hold clues about the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Nashville Zoo is welcoming the newest member to its family. Helios, a red ruffed lemur, was born on March 27 to his 8-year-old mom Phoebe. The Nashville Zoo said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The reason it's thought that we find lemurs here in Madagascar, in Madagascar alone, is because there are no simians, there are no chimpanzees, none of my ancestral family dating back tens of ...

In fact, lemur songs seem to have at least two main ... They produce so-called advertisement songs when their family wakes up in the morning. They also sing “cohesion songs” to find each ...

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 ...