Crowned Lemurs are found in the four protected areas in the north of Madagascar ... The species does appear to be tolerant of selective tree extraction and it is found where there is constant human ...

as happens in most other lemur species, but are left in nests (Petter et al, 1977; Klopfer and Dugard, 1976; Jolly et al, 1984). These may be constructed by the female, but are frequently just bundles ...

Kayaking along the mangrove river near Ambatomikopaka offers a tranquil escape into Madagascar’s Masoala Peninsula, home to ...

There, at the top of the tree, is an Indri, which is the largest lemur in Madagascar. The reason it's thought that we find lemurs here in Madagascar, in Madagascar alone, is because there are no ...

They are familiar residents of many zoos. Lemurs use their hands and feet to move nimbly through the trees, but cannot grip with their tails as some of their primate cousins do. Ring-tailed lemurs ...

Lemurs, small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa, are a mystery of evolution. When the first ones arrived there tens of millions of years ago ...

These threatened nocturnal lemurs live in the dry forests of western Madagascar and rarely leave the forests' trees. Little is known of these rare primates. Mouse lemurs are forest dwellers that ...

living above the tree-line at an elevation of 2500 m. (Goodman and Langrande, 1996). Lemur catta has been defined as a very flexible “edge” species: able to withstand relatively extreme temperatures ...

The seized animals included an endangered siamang gibbon, two sunda flying lemurs, two green tree pythons, a white-lipped python, nine four-eyed turtles, a red-footed tortoise, an Indochinese box ...

Visitors can look at the earliest lemurs and monkeys, elephant birds, mini hippos, and other species from Madagascar, South America, Africa and North America. “The exhibit is the story of primates, ...