Lemurs can sing with a sense of rhythm similar to humans, according to a study published Monday by Current Biology. Researchers studied 636 recordings of vocalizations from 39 adult indris, a type of ...

A critically endangered type of lemur has arrived at a zoo, making it only the tenth wildlife park in the world to hold the ...

In some parts of the world, animals are going extinct before scientists can even name them. Such may be the case for mouse lemurs, the saucer-eyed, teacup-sized primates native to the African island ...

The small primates, known for their bushy tails and large eyes, are already classed as one of the world’s most endangered ...

A Coquerel's sifaka, a critically endangered type of lemur known for jumping vertically like a pogo stick, was born recently at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. The female infant is the third of its ...

Thousands of the endangered primates end up on the dinner plates of people in the upper rung of the country’s society who ...

Antananarivo, Madagascar– To recognize an internationally renowned primatologist and champion of Madagascar's unique biodiversity, scientists who discovered three new species of mouse lemur on the ...

Scientists have discovered and described a new species of mouse lemur from Madagascar. The new species is one of the smallest primates in the world. They are tiny and adorable with big googly eyes and ...

Break out the “awws”, because an adorable new species of lemur has just been discovered in Madagascar. Just look at its little face! The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In ...

Using an unusually well-preserved subfossil jawbone, a team of researchers has sequenced for the first time the nuclear genome of the koala lemur (Megaladapis edwardsi), one of the largest of the 17 ...