The results showed that lemurs with these extra folds were able to call louder and include more complicated noises in these calls than those without. "Primates use varied vocal repertoires to ...

Red-fronted lemurs have found an interesting way to ward off parasites—they chew up toxic millipedes and rub the goo all over ...

and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics found that Madagascan lemurs—small black-and-white primates—make rhythmic “honks” during their alarm calls. It sounds a bit like a car horn.

That might sound like the stuff of nightmares to us, but for lemurs, it’s far more helpful than horror-like. If you’re ...

Lemurs are primates found only on the African island of Madagascar and some tiny neighboring islands. Because of its geographic isolation, Madagascar is home to many amazing animals found nowhere ...

There are more than 20 species of mouse lemurs, and several have been identified only in recent years. This is a rarity in primate research, and illustrates just how much remains to be known about ...

Ring-tailed lemurs have a black and white striped tail which is longer than their whole body! They use their tails to communicate and for balance. Ring-tailed lemurs eat fruits, flowers ...

There, at the top of the tree, is an Indri, which is the largest lemur in Madagascar. The reason it's thought that we find lemurs here in Madagascar, in Madagascar alone, is because there are no ...

Given the threat to lemurs in the wild, it is essential to determine how human-induced habitat change is affecting their health. In 2003 a survey on the health and disease ecology of wild ring-tailed ...