By Mongabay.com The indri, a critically endangered lemur only found in Madagascar’s rainforest, might hold clues about the ...

A group of primates known as Lemuroidea Gray, 1873, or lemurs, lives exclusively on Madagascar and on a small group of islands close by. They were the only primates to be found on the Madagascar until ...

The furry primates and the tortoises will be sent to special centres once they return to Madagascar, said its environment minister Max Andonirina Fontaine who was in Thailand to oversee the ...

I write about the world of biology. The world’s largest nocturnal primate—the aye-aye—is steeped in superstition in its native ... [+] Madagascar, casting a thick shadow over its continued ...

This is a rarity in primate research, and illustrates just how much remains to be known about these fascinating animals. Like all lemurs, mouse lemurs inhabit the island of Madagascar off the east ...

A rare baby Silvered Langur, which is a primate native to Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia, was born at the Bronx Zoo in November, and is finally ready to be seen by visitors. RECOMMENDED: This is ...

Lemurs are primates found only on the African island of Madagascar and some tiny neighboring islands. Because of its geographic isolation, Madagascar is home to many amazing animals found nowhere ...

A: Primates are divided into three basic groups. There are prosimians, such as the lemurs who live on Madagascar, who are primates but they preserve a lot of primitive mammalian features.

The lemurs of Madagascar face probable extinction within the next half-century if adequate conservation programs are not developed. Habitat loss remains the major threat to primate survival, with this ...

Very privileged. CHILD NARRATOR: But with rainforests in Madagascar being destroyed these animals have become one of the most critically endangered primates in the world. Seeing these guys up ...