Join us on a whimsical journey through Madagascar's misty jungles, where the elusive lemurs play hide and seek with eager ...

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 ...

They live only on Madagascar and, one by one, they are dying there. Impish, precocious and endearing, the planet’s last surviving lemurs have been cornered by man on a paradise island which has turned ...

Researchers show that clever lemurs -- some of our earliest primate relatives -- gain social standing as the result of their problem-solving skills. Do smart kids make more friends? If others see ...

Lemurs are a unique group of primates native to Madagascar, an island off the coast of east Africa. Although they are related to monkeys and apes, lemurs make up a separate branch of the primate ...

Thousands of threatened lemurs are killed by specialist hunters every year to feed a lucrative urban market for their meat in cities across Madagascar. While rural subsistence hunting is seasonal and ...

Biologists are offering a new theory for the long-standing mystery of why male lemurs are no larger than females. The theory posits that male lemurs guard their mates just like other primates. But ...