Conservationists in Madagascar are working with local communities to reduce forest fires and preserve the country's iconic lemur species. Madagascar is the only country with a native lemur population, ...

Banner image: A ring-tailed lemur in a tamarind tree in a reserve in Madagascar. (Credit: CC photo by Frank Vassen via Wikimedia Commons) In 2003, a team of primatologists led by CU Boulder trapped, ...

Madagascar is an island that's no stranger to natural disasters, in particular cyclones. This is because it's located in the ...

Lemurs first arrived on the island of Madagascar 53.2 million years ago, probably hitching a ride on a vegetation raft from ...

The recent seizure in Thailand of 48 lemurs and more than 1,200 critically endangered tortoises endemic to Madagascar underscores the global scale of wildlife trafficking networks that use Thailand as ...

Madagascar is home to a unique biodiversity with a large number of endemic species, among those many lemur species, including the mouse lemurs. This diversity is also found in their retroviruses.

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Little Rock Zoo is gearing up to celebrate and bring awareness to lemurs this weekend. The zoo said they will be celebrating the Madagascar-native primate along with their ...

Lemurs can sing with a sense of rhythm similar to humans, according to a study published Monday by Current Biology. Researchers studied 636 recordings of vocalizations from 39 adult indris, a type of ...