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 ...

What’s bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and loves the sound of music? A lemur, according to an innovative Scottish research project A troop of cheek little lemurs at Blair Drummond Safari Park ...

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 ...

The first is the 1:1 pattern, such as in the dance club song “I like to move it,” which was used in the animated film Madagascar to introduce a ring-tailed lemur character named King Julien.

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 ...

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 ...