The Simpona or Silky sifaka (Propithecus diadema candidus) is a rare and critically endangered species of lemur that is endemic to a very small mountainous area in Northeastern Madagascar. This ...

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 ...

Tucked away at Broad Street, north of East Campus, is a museum holding a new exhibit of fossils designed to teach us about how lemurs and humans evolved. The small Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural ...

Ring-tailed lemurs also spend a lot of time on the ground, which is unusual among lemur species. They forage for fruit, which makes up the greater part of their diet, but also eat leaves ...

Ring-tailed lemurs have a black and white striped tail which is longer than their whole body! They use their tails to communicate and for balance. Ring-tailed lemurs eat fruits, flowers, leaves ...

There are 101 known species of lemur in Madagascar. The ring-tailed lemur is found in the dry forests and bush of southern and south-western Madagascar. Females reproduce at about three years of ...

The first is an intact forest within the Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve. The second is altered forest for subsistence agriculture. The third is an area outside the reserve where cows and goats feed ...

Ring-tailed lemurs use their toothcombs for both functions. Because of this dual use, ring-tailed lemur toothcombs often show excessive wear (sometimes more than 50%), in addition to frequent damage, ...

Currently the lemur is clinging onto its mother but will be able to move around on its own in a couple of months The birth of a lemur at a conservation project is "especially significant" in ...

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

Officials last week rescued a lemur, an alligator, two lizards, multiple snakes and over a dozen dogs from what they say was an illegal exotic animal trade in one man’s home. Clayton County ...

ALOR GAJAH: A Sunda flying lemur, better known as a “kubong,” was rescued after the animal got entangled in a barbed wire fence at Kampung Taboh Naning here. The Melaka Civil Defence Force ...