A pair of sifaka lemurs appear to play peek-a-boo near the Sacred Lake of Mangatsa. (Photo by Norma Meyer) After all, I had swung halfway around the globe to view lemurs in Madagascar, the only ...

The lemur is from a species called Coquerel sifaka native to Madagascar which are known as dancing lemurs as they often are spotted standing on two legs and moving from side to side. The newborn ...

the Coquerel’s sifaka, weighs as much as a house cat and stands two feet tall. Veterinarian Cathy Williams with a gray mouse lemur, the smallest lemur species housed at the Duke Lemur Center and the ...

Majorian is a Coquerel’s sifaka, a medium-sized lemur native to Madagascar. The Duke Lemur Center has a conservation breeding program aimed at preserving the critically endangered species.

Keepers say that both mother and baby are doing very well, with keepers saying "they've been inseparable so far." ...

I also talked about shooting sifaka lemurs and baobab trees in the Kirindy ... I briefly visited on my way along the west coast of Madagascar. Once finished in Kirindy, I took an extremely bumpy ...

A Verreaux's Sifaka, my favorite lemur species in Kirindy ... due to massive deforestation and climate change, Madagascar's ...

The critically endangered Verreaux’s Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) is one of the 109 species of lemurs that currently are extant on Madagascar. A total of 17 species of lemurs have already gone ...

Whilst researching the potential stories for the Mammals Heat episode we came across a newly described behaviour about white sifaka lemurs in Madagascar hugging tree trunks to keep cool!

Madagascar is also the only place in the entire world where lemurs, a group of primates, are naturally found. It's home to more than 100 species of lemurs. Due to ongoing threats of disaster ...

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