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 ...

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

The silicon model of the lemurs' larynx allowed researchers to discover that it also lowers the frequency of the sounds produced, which makes a lemur sound larger than it actually is.

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 ...

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 ...

Ring-tailed lemurs look different! They retain a number of primitive mammalian traits. For example: Reflective tapetum lucidum, which is a layer of cells in the wall of the eye that reflects light ...