Pop quiz: are you a haplorhine or a streppsirhine? Or to put it another way, are you more like a lemur or a tarsier? If you don’t know, don’t care and don’t understand such crazy talk in the first ...

Ring-tailed lemurs belong to the family Lemuridae, which is one of five lemur families. It is the only member of the genus Lemur. There are over 100 kinds of lemurs and new species continue to be ...

It might be a boy or a girl. It's still too early to tell. But one thing is crystal clear: the baby is extremely cute, a tad shy and crucial to its species. A critically endangered blue-eyed black ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- It’s quite possible that no one in the world has diagnosed, treated, and otherwise cared for more lemurs than veterinarian Dr. Cathy Williams. Since joining the Duke Lemur Center in ...

For the first time, a critically endangered mongoose lemur has been born at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. The baby lemur's parents are Olivia, who has given birth twice before at other zoos, and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO — An endangered ring-tailed lemur ...

Captive lemurs receive an abundance of food year-round, so the need to hibernate as a way to store energy when resources are scarce is not needed. Frank Vassen Via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 In ...

Research can offer clues into why we suffer from age-related conditions What can lemurs tell us about inflammation and aging, aka “inflammaging” in humans? That’s the question Elaine Guevara, a ...

Bright-eyed and apparently quite curious, a triplet of critically endangered red ruffed lemurs were born in May at the Lemur Conservation Foundation’s reserve in Myakka City. Six lemur infants, all ...