Hear the word ‘”lemur” and one of the first things that will spring to mind is King Julien, the self proclaimed “Lord of the Lemurs” and party king! The Madagascar movie franchises, and the triple ...

CARTER COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Elizabethton/Carter County Animal Shelter staff has been learning a lot about lemurs lately after two were rescued alongside numerous other animals from a local home.

As a researcher looks on, a lemur takes a long whiff of a fruit growing from a tree in an eastern Madagascar rainforest. It passes the animal's test. The lemur takes a bite. Seconds later it sniffs at ...

Scientists have discovered there is no correlation between the resilience of lemurs living on Madagascar and the number of cyclones the island country encounters. In an article for The Conversation, ...

We have a sort of obsession with lemurs in my house. It all started about 18 months ago when my younger daughter, six months at the time, was crying inconsolably. My older daughter, always ready to ...

Lemurs are able to pretend to be much larger than they really are using only their voice, thanks to a special quirk of evolution, and scientists have discovered how they do it. These small primates, ...

Before Madagascar, lemurs lived under the radar. Today, King Julien is a household name and some of us think about his silly quotes a little too often. Little did we know that lemurs are such amazing ...

Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) are a type of primate found only on Madagascar and nearby islands. They get their name from the distinctive markings on their tails. Ring-tailed lemurs are an ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo is home to red-ruffed, black-and-white ruffed, ring-tailed and collared brown lemurs. Learn more about these charasmatic animals with a few of my favorite lemur facts.

Just like humans, apes, and monkeys, lemurs are primates. More specifically, they are prosimian (literally pre-monkey) primates, the group with the deepest roots of the primate evolutionary tree.