They are jumping from tree to tree. They are not afraid of falling. The tail is used to maintain stability, especially on the small branches. (lemur trills) Sometimes they play with their tails ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lemurs seem to hug trees to keep cool on sweltering days. Chloe Chen‑Kraus, affiliated with Yale University, and her colleagues noticed that in the Bezà Mahafaly Special Reserve in south-west ...

The seized animals included an endangered siamang gibbon, two sunda flying lemurs, two green tree pythons, a white-lipped python, nine four-eyed turtles, a red-footed tortoise, an Indochinese box ...

Tree-dwelling species of monkeys and lemurs are spending increasing amounts of time on the forest floor as they seek refuge from rising temperatures. Scientists say the shift from arboreal ...

A previously unknown species of dwarf lemur inhabits the Lost Forest. During the expedition researchers captured the nocturnal, tree-dwelling animal to examine it and take hair and blood samples ...

If lemurs go extinct, Madagascar’s ecosystem could crumble as they are crucial to dispersing seeds and a number of trees might be unable to reproduce successfully. There are plenty of things to ...

The stresses of warming temperatures and forest losses are driving dozens of species of monkeys and lemurs that normally shelter and feed high in the tree canopy to spend more time foraging on the ...