A video shows a lemur picking its nose, a behavior never before observed by scientists. The animal shoves one of her long agile fingers all the way up her nose to her throat. An accompanying study ...
A Sunnyvale teen is working with San Jose’s Happy Hollow Park and Zoo to improve the habitats of its red-ruffed lemurs. Ellie Kirshner, 17, must complete an independent research project in order to ...
For the first time, researchers have been able to identify potential sex pheromones in a primate – and it’s all thanks to the way male ring-tailed lemurs flirt with potential mates, according to a new ...
If lemurs were on Facebook, Fern would have oodles of friends, liking and commenting on their posts. Captain Lee, on the other hand, would rarely send a friend request. These are just two of the ...
The animal kingdom is full of interesting and wacky creatures. For every overly cute creature like the Shawn-the-sheep nudibranch, there are strange and weird creatures like the red-fronted lemur.
You can’t bluff a lemur. Humans can put on their “game face” to appear tough, but ring-tailed lemurs use scent to size up their opponents. That means these smallcat-size primates from Madagascar can’t ...
At the end of last year, this completely-adorable-but-sort-of-alien-looking baby was born at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina. Named Beatrice the Swabia, this baby Coquerel’s sifaka is ...
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Little Rock Zoo is gearing up to celebrate and bring awareness to lemurs this weekend. The zoo said they will be celebrating the Madagascar-native primate along with their ...