A Young Lemur Did Something Risky With a Stranger—and Scientists Watched Closely ...

A video shows a lemur picking its nose, a behavior never before observed by scientists. The animal shoves one of her long agile fingers all the way up her nose to her throat. An accompanying study ...

Spring is in the air and that means one thing for ring-tailed lemurs: It’s time to get busy. For these bright-eyed primates, mating is concentrated during a few weeks each April — and now, researchers ...

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 ...

Did you know that ring-tailed lemurs get cavities and other types of dental disease common to humans? Did you know that ring-tailed lemurs have a total of 36 adult teeth in their mouths? Humans have ...

A Sunnyvale teen is working with San Jose’s Happy Hollow Park and Zoo to improve the habitats of its red-ruffed lemurs. Ellie Kirshner, 17, must complete an independent research project in order to ...

You can’t bluff a lemur. Humans can put on their “game face” to appear tough, but ring-tailed lemurs use scent to size up their opponents. That means these smallcat-size primates from Madagascar can’t ...

Researchers hid a puzzle box inside an enclosure to see if an “innovator” could spark a troop-wide revolution. The task was simple: slide a lid to reveal a grape. The shock wasn’t the solve—it was who ...

For the first time, researchers have been able to identify potential sex pheromones in a primate – and it’s all thanks to the way male ring-tailed lemurs flirt with potential mates, according to a new ...

In lemur society, it's not males but the females who are in charge. A new study of the role of hormones in aggression in lemurs from before birth to adulthood suggests female domination gets wired ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Anyone who says females are the 'gentle sex' has never met a lemur. Lady lemurs get first dibs on food, steal their mates' favorite sleeping spots and even attack males, swatting or ...