If there was a contest for biggest female bullies of the animal world, lemurs would be near the top of the list. In these distant primate cousins, it’s the ladies who call the shots, relying on ...

At first, Wright and graduate student Chia Tan thought they were simply seeing bad behavior by one beastly male. Then a new male came in and did the same thing, forcing the researchers to contemplate ...

The animal kingdom is full of interesting and wacky creatures. For every overly cute creature like the Shawn-the-sheep nudibranch, there are strange and weird creatures like the red-fronted lemur.

If you've ever watched a nature documentary featuring lemurs — or the animated feature "Madagascar," with characters King Julien, Maurice and Mort — you have probably fallen in love with the ...

Patterns of Range Use and Social Organization in Aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis) on Nosy Mangabe / E.J. Sterling -- The Socioecology of Eulemur macaco: A Preliminary Report / I.C. Colquhoun -- ...

Lemurs are known for their social grooming, but their best grooming tool is their tongue. Below their main tongue lies the sublingua—a stiff, secondary “tongue” used specifically to clean their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bright-eyed and apparently quite curious, a triplet of critically endangered red ruffed lemurs were born in May at the Lemur ...