The lemurs that we know today are small with big eyes and live in trees. More than 100 species live in Madagascar, and they all have high levels of genetic diversity. Yet, 90 percent of them are ...

Tucker Meek bought a pet lemur named Gizmo for half off the original price of $5,000 and a bottle of Grey Goose Vodka. His stepfather knew the owner of a pet store in Lubbock, and although exotic ...

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 ...

They are all primate cousins of humans, but in many ways their similarities stop there. Duke Lemur Center has more than a dozen species of lemurs, and there are at least 110 lemur species in the wild, ...

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 ...

For every overly cute creature like the Shawn-the-sheep nudibranch, there are strange and weird creatures like the red-fronted lemur. This lemur, while cute from a distance, does something ...

The world's largest turtle species, which are known as leatherback turtles, occasionally visits British Water. Their ...

Several species of lemur, the field hamster and a whale species have been added to the global Red List of Threatened Species. A total of 103 of the 107 lemur species are now threatened with ...

This private, 12-acre reserve houses nine lemur species, as well as various lizards and birds and 70-plus types of plants. In addition to welcoming tourists, the park works with other Malagasy ...

Visitors can look at the earliest lemurs and monkeys, elephant birds, mini hippos, and other species from Madagascar, South America, Africa and North America. “The exhibit is the story of primates, ...

2002; Cuozzo and Sauther, 2004). Lemur catta is one of the two lemur species that has been studied over the longest period of time, beginning with Jolly’s (1966) and Sussman’s (1972) pioneering work ...