Randy the ring-tailed lemur is an enthusiastic, if slightly fussy, research subject. Splay-legged and wide-eyed, he buried his snout in a purple plastic cup last week and began his experimental task ...

Did you know lemurs have built-in toothcombs that help them groom each other and themselves? Here's how it works.

In honor of Duke’s Centennial, The Chronicle is highlighting pivotal figures and events throughout the University’s history. Here, we take a look at the founding of the Duke Lemur Center: The Duke ...

What do you know about lemurs? I did not know much before I went to Madagascar earlier this year, just that they are somehow related to monkeys, and that some of them have huge round eyes. Now I have ...

Red-bellied lemurs are one of the world's rarest primates, with their numbers declining by more than 30% in recent years, according to the English zoo It's a massive win for red-bellied lemurs around ...

Dr Alison Cronin MBE, director of Monkey World - Ape Rescue Centre in Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset, said "well-meaning ...

The animals she is describing are lemurs, primates like us. They are the unlikely product of one of nature’s reckless little experiments: all of them—more than 50 living lemur species—derive from a ...