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Kristi NewlandLee Richardson Zoo Director After a week of voting, the three red ruffed lemur pups born at the Lee Richardson Zoo have names! Zoo… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for compliment ...
A conservationist has met a rare lemur named in her honour. Sydonie Rabarison, who works with Madagasikara Voakajy (MV), a conservation group based in Madagascar, met the young Coquerel’s sifaka ...
The photo of a courageous mother lemur with a baby on her back, taking a harrowing jump in a ravine, won the California ...
Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...
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In animal parlance, a “conspiracy” is a group of lemurs, and the zoo recently welcomed a trio of ring-tailed lemur pups to its Water’s Edge Africa landscape.
(Maholy speaking foreign language) (group speaking foreign language) We are taking behavior and ecological data on lemurs. Our project is working with 45 rangers all over Madagascar, and 25 of ...
A hamster-sized primate from Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur is our closest genetic relative known to hibernate. They also tend to live longer than you’d expect given their size. New research ...
To help them hibernate, the researchers gradually lowered the thermostat from 77 degrees Fahrenheit to the mid-50s to simulate winter conditions in the lemurs’ native habitat and gave them artificial ...