If you liked this story, share it with other people. Authors note: although reported on in 2011, the lemur breeding as described below occurred in 2001. After years of releasing captive-born lemurs ...

On World Lemur Day, learn more about different types of Lemurs through Duke's Lemur Center (DLC) and how you can help. Duke is home to the largest and most diverse collection of lemurs outside of ...

At the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Fridays are for the lemurs. Every Friday through July 27, the museum is hosting a 'Lemur Fun-Fact Friday,' featuring their in-house lemur, Zuri. The museum received ...

If there was a contest for biggest female bullies of the animal world, lemurs would be near the top of the list. It's the ladies who get their way and keep males in line. In one branch of the lemur ...

Ring-tailed lemurs belong to the family Lemuridae, which is one of five lemur families. It is the only member of the genus Lemur. There are over 100 kinds of lemurs and new species continue to be ...

Here’s a nice way to make your day brighter: pictures of baby lemurs. Baby lemurs that you can see in Texas. By coincidence, there are two different baby lemurs in the Houston Zoo right now, each with ...

These lemurs were born to dance! Earlier today, England's Chester Zoo announced to its Facebook page that it was welcoming a pair of incredibly rare 'dancing' lemurs as part of its conservation ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- If you want to get up close with lemurs, the Philadelphia Zoo has you covered. Lemur Island is now open just outside the PECO Primate Reserve at the zoo on 34th Street and Girard ...

Spring is in the air and that means one thing for ring-tailed lemurs: It’s time to get busy. For these bright-eyed primates, mating is concentrated during a few weeks each April — and now, researchers ...

At the Duke Lemur Center, an innovative plan to keep the animals social late in life: pair them with lemurs of another species. By Sabrina Imbler Over the course of her 32 years, Cheyenne the ...

Thousands of threatened lemurs are killed by specialist hunters every year to feed a lucrative urban market for their meat in cities across Madagascar. While rural subsistence hunting is seasonal and ...