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We spot a rare Sifaka lemur — one of only about 2,000 left in the world. Lemurs share many of the same genes as humans. They're not as close as chimpanzees but they're still family.
Visitors to the Duke Lemur Center Monday March 31, 2014 gathered around a lone Sifaka lemur (Propithecus diadema) feeding on the ground, while other Sifaka hung out in the trees overhead during ...
Lemurs in Madagascar have been under pressure from deforestation, poaching, drought and other challenges for years. Now, in the much-visited Berenty Reserve near the island’s southern tip, one ...
Two sifaka lemurs checked out their new habitat at the zoo's Primate Center. From the start, the lemurs showed their tremendous leaping ability -- they can jump 30 feet.
There's a brand new baby at the St. Louis Zoo. Kapika, a female Coquerel's sifaka (sh-fahk) -- a type of lemur -- was born at the zoo's primate house on January 21, and the zoo says she's now ...
BALTIMORE, MD (WBFF) — The Maryland Zoo announced the arrival of two Coquerel’s sifaka, marking the first time since 2021 the endangered lemur species can call Baltimore home. The Zoo’s new ...
Lemur Legs. Season 3 Episode 19 | 26m 26s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The Kratt crew travel to Madagascar to meet a family of sifaka lemurs. Aired 09/03/2014 | Expired 11/04/2024 | Rating TV-Y ...
'A Lemur did a poo down my shirt during one photo shoot. I also woke up in my hotel room in Berenty reserve to find a troop of ring tailed lemurs bouncing around on the bed with me.
Jovian, a Coquerel’s sifaka lemur who starred as “Zoboomafoo” in the PBS children’s television show by the same name, died Monday at the Duke Lemur Center. He was 20.
A Duke Lemur Center staffer holds a baby male born Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 to a sifaka lemur named Gisela, the daughter of Zoboomafoo, the late lemur and star of the PBS children’s show.
Take a walk through the internationally-renowned Duke Lemur Center, in Durham, N.C., which has the world’s largest and most diverse collection of lemurs outside Madagascar.
Critic%27s review%3A 3.5 stars; No, "Island of Lemurs: Madagascar" isn't the latest installment in the animated DreamWorks series starring Ben Stiller and involving the occasional musical animal.