Take blue-eyed black lemurs, for example. Females get first dibs on food and prime resting spots; smacking, biting and chasing the males to get their way. Their behavior isn't the fierce ...

The animals are one of the few primates that build nests for their young, and lemur pups are born with their eyes open. The babies start moving around within hours, though they rely on their ...

An endangered baby lemur was born at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, marking the first birth of the species — a Coquerel’s sifaka — at the facility since 2016, zoo officials announced Thursday.

Ring-tailed lemurs are critically endangered, with fewer than 2,000 remaining in the wild due to habitat loss and illegal hunting. Naples Zoo supports lemur conservation efforts in Madagascar and ...

Now, new findings suggest that this amiable shift in lemurs was at least partly driven by changes in the action of the "love hormone" oxytocin inside their brains. Take blue-eyed black lemurs ...