Like all lemurs, mouse lemurs inhabit the island of Madagascar off the east coast of Africa. The pygmy mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world. Its head and body are less than two and a ...

Veterinarian Cathy Williams with a gray mouse lemur, the smallest lemur species housed at the Duke Lemur Center and the second smallest lemur in Madagascar. Some lemurs eat insects and grubs while ...

A tiny primate from Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur, has an amazing ability—it can slow down cellular aging while it ...

The Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve is located in southwestern Madagascar (23° 30’ S ... Verreaux’s sifaka Microcebus griseorufus: the gray brown mouse lemur. This sleepy mouse lemur is part of a study ...

Lemurs - those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar, off the southeast ... from the teacup-sized mouse lemur to the giant sloth lemur. Many of these animals exhibit ...

There are no less than eight lemur species here, from the tiny Madame Berthe’s Mouse Lemur (the smallest ... deforestation ...

from humpback whales to pygmy mouse lemurs, and even the mystical and deadly fossa. In episode one, the gang arrives in Madagascar and immediately heads out to track down some of the planet's most ...

Madagascar itself epitomizes this process ... including now vanished species that were big as gorillas and the palm-size mouse lemur, the smallest living primate. The tsingy also provides refuge ...

The lemurs of Madagascar face probable extinction within the next half-century if adequate conservation programs are not developed. Habitat loss remains the major threat to primate survival, with this ...

Join National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore as he travels 10,000 miles from his home in Nebraska to Madagascar ... s main goal is to photograph a lemur, the rare and acrobatic Decken ...

Hibernating dwarf lemurs can stay in this cold, standby state for about a week before they have to briefly warm up, and ...