Due to ongoing threats of disaster impacts, hunting and deforestation, lemurs are the most endangered group of mammals in the world. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...
Hibernating dwarf lemurs can stay in this cold, standby state for about a week before they have to briefly warm up, and ...
The ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs ...
There are no showtimes for this date. A documentary that follows Dr. Patricia C. Wright's mission to help lemurs, the highly evolved creatures who arrived on Madagascar millions of years ago as ...
According to the Singapore Zoo website, visitors are warned to not approach, feed, touch, tease or carry out other acts that ...
The Duke Lemur Center has a conservation breeding program aimed at preserving the critically endangered species. Majorian is named for a Roman emperor, the Lemur Center said in its birth ...
The species’ population is projected to decline by 80 per cent globally by 2048. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Some creatures have come up with a way to reverse this process, at least temporarily. Consider the fat-tailed dwarf lemur of Madagascar. This hamster-sized primate can turn back the cellular aging ...
The birth of a ring-tailed lemur was announced March 4 by Safari West; The Santa Rosa animal park revealed the baby's name is ...