There are more than 20 species of mouse lemurs ... how much remains to be known about these fascinating animals. Like all lemurs, mouse lemurs inhabit the island of Madagascar off the east ...

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 ...

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, ...

Over half of lemur species rely on leaves as their main food item ... We then added up the score across all resilience traits and compared the resilience score of each species with their habitat range ...

This comb consists of all four lower incisors and the two narrow ... Lemur catta is one of the two lemur species that has been studied over the longest period of time, beginning with Jolly’s (1966) ...

Visitors can see Bindi and watch the lemurs jump through the trees, find out more about them at the ranger talk and feeding ...

Lemurs - those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa - are an evolutionary mystery. When the first lemurs appeared tens of millions of years ...

Visitors can look at the earliest lemurs and monkeys, elephant birds, mini hippos, and other species from Madagascar ... “With this collection, we can walk through our family tree all in one place.” ...