Lemurs are known for their social grooming, but their best grooming tool is their tongue. Below their main tongue lies the ...

Randy the ring-tailed lemur is an enthusiastic, if slightly fussy, research subject. Splay-legged and wide-eyed, he buried his snout in a purple plastic cup last week and began his experimental task ...

In honor of Duke’s Centennial, The Chronicle is highlighting pivotal figures and events throughout the University’s history. Here, we take a look at the founding of the Duke Lemur Center: The Duke ...

What do you know about lemurs? I did not know much before I went to Madagascar earlier this year, just that they are somehow related to monkeys, and that some of them have huge round eyes. Now I have ...

Dr Alison Cronin MBE, director of Monkey World - Ape Rescue Centre in Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset, said "well-meaning ...

To make long distance space travel possible, we need to figure out how to hibernate. But we're primates, and primates just can't do that! Or can we...? Thank you so much to the Duke Lemur Center for ...

The animals she is describing are lemurs, primates like us. They are the unlikely product of one of nature’s reckless little experiments: all of them—more than 50 living lemur species—derive from a ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- If you want to get up close with lemurs, the Philadelphia Zoo has you covered. Lemur Island is now open just outside the PECO Primate Reserve at the zoo on 34th Street and Girard ...