"With all living and extinct lemurs together in the same tree, we can begin to understand how evolution and extinction have worked in the past, and project risks to these primate species into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(lemurs vocalizing) (both speaking foreign language ... They are jumping from tree to tree. They are not afraid of falling. The tail is used to maintain stability, and especially on the small ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHILD: The problem is you can either save the rainforest and the lemurs or save the people. You have to make the right balance, cos they need all the trees. They need to cut it down and things so ...

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 ...

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 ...