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Why are lemurs nearly extinct?

Lemurs - those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa - are an ...
A new study finds that Madagascar's singing lemurs use a vocal technique similar to human singers, offering new insight into ...
What can be done when one threatened animal kills another? Scientists studying critically endangered lemurs in Madagascar confronted this difficult reality when they witnessed attacks on lemurs by ...
Learn more about the wild indri, a lemur whose haunting call is produced by the same vocal movements as an opera singer.
Most people's encounters with lemurs have occurred through their representations in popular children's media, like "Zoboomafoo" or "Madagascar." However, most people don't know that lemurs play an ...
The Duke Lemur Center houses the only colony of fat-tailed dwarf lemurs within human care. All research conducted at the Lemur Center is noninvasive. It has two state-of-the-art hibernacula rooms, ...
MADAGASCAR – It turns out that the Indri Indri lemurs of Madagascar can carry a tune. Researchers have found that these furry, tree-dwelling creatures use music to communicate with one another, likely ...
Where do lemurs come from and what are their origins? The ancestors of the lemurs would have arrived from Africa to Madagascar by natural floating rafts 65 million years ago. Then they evolved and ...
University of Warwick scientists have spent years studying indri lemurs.
The animals she is describing are lemurs, primates like us. They are the unlikely product of one of nature’s reckless little experiments: all of them—more than 50 living lemur species—derive from a ...
If you are spending a lot of time scrolling through adorable baby animal photos and videos, let's get you off the couch and offer a better idea. The Brandywine Zoo has welcomed a baby lemur to its ...