SANTA ANA, California -- A lemur stolen from a California zoo last weekend is back in captivity. According to police, someone stole a ring-tailed lemur named Isaac and released two monkeys onto Santa ...

What do you know about lemurs? I did not know much before I went to Madagascar earlier this year, just that they are somehow related to monkeys, and that some of them have huge round eyes. Now I have ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

The animals she is describing are lemurs, primates like us. They are the unlikely product of one of nature’s reckless little experiments: all of them—more than 50 living lemur species—derive from a ...

In honor of Duke’s Centennial, The Chronicle is highlighting pivotal figures and events throughout the University’s history. Here, we take a look at the founding of the Duke Lemur Center: The Duke ...

CARTER COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Elizabethton/Carter County Animal Shelter staff has been learning a lot about lemurs lately after two were rescued alongside numerous other animals from a local home.

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The Erie Zoo is home to numerous primates, including the black-handed spider monkeys, Bornean orangutans, lesser spot-nosed guenons, Allen's swamp monkeys, siamang gibbons and lemurs shown here in ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers; lesser ...