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 ...

To create their distinctive odour, male lemurs combine the strong but short-lived scent produced by their wrist glands, with longer lasting secretion from their shoulder glands. An action known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several dozen lemurs and more than 900 tortoises endemic to Madagascar that were trafficked to Thailand will be returned home this week, the Indian Ocean island-nation’s Environment Ministry said.