Today, Madagascar has 267 forest reserves, covering over 1,000,000 ha. (Mittermeier et al., 1994). Yet the rest of the forest is being destroyed at rapid speed. More protection will be needed if ...

This is the starting screen for the Lemur practical. This practical will be held from from 26/09 to 10/10. Answers are due on 11/10.

There are no showtimes for this date. A documentary that follows Dr. Patricia C. Wright's mission to help lemurs, the highly evolved creatures who arrived on Madagascar millions of years ago as ...

A new population of rare giant mouse lemurs was discovered in southwestern Madagascar’s Ranobe forest, WWF said ... came across a giant mouse-lemur (Mirza), foraging within fruiting Ficus spp. Two ...

There are more than 20 species of mouse lemurs ... Like all lemurs, mouse lemurs inhabit the island of Madagascar off the east coast of Africa. The pygmy mouse lemur is the smallest primate ...

The lemurs that we know today are small with big eyes and live in trees. More than 100 species live in Madagascar, and they all have high levels of genetic diversity. Yet, 90 percent of them are ...

This private, 12-acre reserve houses nine lemur species, as well as various lizards and birds and 70-plus types of plants. In addition to welcoming tourists, the park works with other Malagasy ...

There are now over 90 species of lemur, or sub-species, in Madagascar. No species of my linage, the simians. Over a vast sweep of time, 'the lemurs have diversified to fill all manner of different ...

Scientists studying critically endangered lemurs in Madagascar confronted this difficult reality when they witnessed attacks on lemurs by another vulnerable species, a carnivore called a fosa.

Madagascar has an extraordinary diversity of animal species - 80% of which are found nowhere else in the world. But the deforestation is causing the destruction of the habitat of the lemur.

To find out why, and perhaps solve this mystery, anthropologists and biologists from the University of Montreal and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Spain took a genetic approach: they sequenced the ...