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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Madagascar is famous for its lemurs; their ancestors arrived 53 million years ago, and the largely predator-free island has ...

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Lemurs, small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa, are a mystery of evolution. When the first ones arrived there tens of millions of years ago, ...

Lemurs are among the best-known representatives of Madagascar's animal kingdom. They make up more than 15% of all primate species living today—even though the island covers less than 1% of Earth's ...

Learn more about black-and-white ruffed lemurs, their unique pollinating abilities, why they're so endangered, and how the arrival of twins at Central Park Zoo is a step in the right direction for ...

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There are about 100 species of lemur in existence, and nearly all of them live on the isolated island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. So their main diet is based on foods available within ...

Researchers are investigating a sudden spike in pregnancies in one black-and-white ruffed lemur population that might signal environmental stress to the mammals A population of black-and-white ruffed ...