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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

There were none of those competitors here, and so the lemurs have flourished ever since. There are now over 90 species of lemur, or sub-species, in Madagascar. No species of my linage, the simians.

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 ...