They are familiar residents of many zoos. Lemurs use their hands and feet to move nimbly through the trees, but cannot grip with their tails as some of their primate cousins do. Ring-tailed lemurs ...

Whereas the largest species at the Duke Lemur Center, the Coquerel’s sifaka, weighs as much as a house cat and stands two feet tall. Veterinarian Cathy Williams with a gray mouse lemur, the smallest ...

Though lemurs are now endemic only to Madagascar, it is believed that lemur-like animals were found in Africa about 65-75 ...

Of the 107 lemur species endemic to the island nation, the Verreaux’s sifaka is one of 103 now facing extinction.

On the islands of Nosy Be and Nosy Komba, Black Lemurs were seen in groups of between four and 15 individuals, these were composed of several adults, typically more males than females, and two to ...