On the island nation of Madagascar, the long-limbed local primates, lemurs, are for some trees, essential helpers. It is advantageous for a tree to scatter its progeny not just to the wind and widely, ...

Putting a figure on the number of endangered lemurs left in the wild isn't easy, but researchers say one clue might help: the plants they rely on for food. Bamboo lemur populations in their native ...

July 2 (UPI) --Madagascar's largest tree species are under threat. So are the island nation's iconic primates, its lemurs. Healthy forests are essential to Madagascar's lemurs, and new research ...

Researchers explored the role of threatened primates as seed dispersers in Madagascar's biodiverse rainforest to better understand possible consequences of their loss. A large proportion of trees in ...

The island of Madagascar off the southeastern coast of Africa hosts at least 12,000 plant species and 700 vertebrate species, 80% to 90% of which are found nowhere else on Earth. Isolated for the last ...

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Lemurs normally live in trees, but researchers have discovered that at least two species hibernate underground. The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. By tagging 12 ...

correctionA statement in this article from Amanda Korstjens, a professor of behavioral ecology at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom, was incorrectly attributed to Andrew Bernard, a doctoral ...

It might be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but the white-footed sportive lemur waits until night is approaching before it creeps down from the forest hideout where it has been sleeping all day. Slowly, ...

A zoo in Japan is sending one of its lemurs to the island of Jersey in the English Channel. The primate is not being sent as a visiting attraction, but in the hope that she will find a mate. Now from ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- The vast majority of lemur species are on the edge of extinction, experts warn. But not every lemur species faces a grim future. There may be as many as 1.3 million white-fronted brown ...