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.

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Patricia ...

Lemurs with their large eyes, expressive faces and quirky personalities have won the hearts of wildlife lovers. But beyond ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Thousands of the endangered primates end up on the dinner plates of people in the upper rung of the country’s society who have money to spare.

If you've ever watched a nature documentary featuring lemurs — or the animated feature "Madagascar," with characters King Julien, Maurice and Mort — you have probably fallen in love with the ...

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 ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In ...

Cereal description: Here’s a partial list of ingredients in Leapin’ Lemurs: “organic corn meal,” “organic whole grain corn meal,” “organic evaported cane juice,” “organic peanut butter,” “organic ...