Maki died on Thursday after suffering from acute kidney failure and advanced age, according to the zoo Stephanie Wenger is a TV Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She joined the brand in 2021 as a digital ...

Credit: Chester Zoo/Cover Images Primate conservationists at Chester Zoo are celebrating the birth of a critically endangered Coquerel’s sifaka – also known as a ‘dancing lemur’.

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

the precious youngster is only around the same size as a tennis ball. First images released by zookeepers show mum Beatrice carefully cradling her new baby as it clings to her belly. The lemur is from ...

Deep in the forests of Madagascar, one woman is rewriting the fate of a lemur species once thought to be lost. The greater bamboo lemur was on the brink of extinction — until Maholy ...

The ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs ...

The Greater Bamboo lemur is on the brink of extinction. While their population has risen from just 100 to 1,000, bamboo farming and habitat loss continue ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- It’s quite possible that no one in the world has diagnosed, treated, and otherwise cared for more lemurs than veterinarian Dr. Cathy Williams. Since joining the Duke Lemur Center in ...

The lemur twins, one male and one female, have a doting mom named Rosalita Two more lemurs are leaping through the San Diego Zoo's Conrad Prebys Africa Rocks Madagascar Forest habitat. On July 8 ...

There are more than 20 species of mouse lemurs, and several have been identified only in recent years. This is a rarity in primate research, and illustrates just how much remains to be known about ...