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A Coquerel's sifaka, a critically endangered type of lemur known for jumping vertically like a pogo stick, was born recently at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. The female infant is the third of its ...

The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore has welcomed its third newborn Coquerel's sifaka, which is an endangered lemur, in the past two years.The newest addition to the sifaka brood is a boy named Max who was ...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A male Coquerel's sifaka, an endangered lemur native only to the island of Madagascar, has been born at the Maryland Zoo. Little Maximilian was born to Anastasia and Gratian on March ...

The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore has announced Anastasia, the 17-year-old Coquerel’s sifaka, died on Thursday.Zoo officials suspect the lemur suffered from Addison's disease - a rare disease that has ...

Silky sifakas have long eked out an existence in rugged, high-altitude forests. Now the growing number of people nearby pose a threat to the furtive primate. Kevin Schafer Clustered in the mountains ...

Joel tries to photograph a diademed sifaka in the wild. For most of his Photo Ark shoots, Joel Sartore photographs animals in front of studio backgrounds at zoos and nature preserves. But without the ...

Biologists provide the first abundance estimates of Coquerel’s sifaka an endangered lemur species, in its last main refuge, the Ankarafantsika National Park (ANP) in Madagascar. In a study now ...

Forgive Elagabalus – make that Gabe – he’s been a little shy. The first picture of the 10-week-old Coquerel’s sifaka at the Duke Lemur Center was released Thursday and he’s doing very well, ...

At present, there are only about 250 adult Silky Sifaka left in Madagascar. Did you know that the North of Madagascar shelters a splendid species of lemur with white and silky fur, the Silky Sifaka?

A small group of crowned sifaka lemurs Propithecus coronatus have been located in the corridor d’Amboloando-Dabolava, Miandrivazo district-Madagascar, but are immediately threatened with local ...