Madagascar's singing lemurs, the indris, sing off-key in infancy and get better as adults. These large, black-and-white lemurs with buggy eyes are a critically endangered species.

If humans had a similar ratio, their testicles would be the size of grapefruits, according to New Scientist.These animals' testicles are so large that often, lemurs will bump and bruise their ...

Lemurs are the most endangered mammal group in the world. Ring-tailed lemurs are endangered, says the International Union for ...

You only need to look in the direction of spots like Safari West, the conservation-minded Santa Rosa wildlife preserve that is home to over 900 animals. And one of the newest among the colossal ...

And so we knew that hibernators may have a mechanism to elongate telomeres, and we also knew at the time that hibernators tend to live longer lives than similarly sized animals. So we wanted to test ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A male ring-tailed lemur was born at the Toledo Zoo earlier this month. The baby was born on March 10 to parents Fanta (mom), and Echo (dad), making him Fanta's sixth child.

This suggests that the more a lemur species is affected by cyclones, the smaller they are. Given the increase globally in disasters, this type of work ... focuses on how animals, particularly ...

The lemurs’ changes were temporary. Two weeks after the animals made their way out of hibernation, the researchers noted that their telomeres returned to their pre-hibernation length. Lengthening may ...