Overall, lemurs are the most endangered mammal group in the world. In southwestern Madagascar, fewer than 2,000 ring-tailed lemurs may survive.

If humans had a similar body ratio to the northern giant mouse lemur, their testicles would be the size of grapefruits.

Lemurs - those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa - are an ...

Take blue-eyed black lemurs, for example. Females get first dibs on food and prime resting spots; smacking, biting and chasing the males to get their way. Their behavior isn't the fierce ...

Jennifer Godwin, an animal care manager at the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo, says staff are being cautiously optimistic about the lemurs, but the animals are showing encouraging signs so far. "The ...

A bright-eyed, black-and-white ruffed lemur will soon be seen bouncing around the Calgary Zoo. The baby lemur is one month old, born on April 7 to parents Eny and Menabe. It's the first of its ...