When an endangered ring-tailed lemur turned up in Houston's Bear Creek Park last week, Russell Hearen couldn’t believe it at first. Hearen, managing director at Toby’s Wildlife Management and ...

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 ...

“Adopting lemurs promotes illegal trafficking and further decimates the wild population,” Millman said. “Some people do breed ...

It is hoped that the new arrivals at Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World will breed as part of efforts to manage the captive ...

Given the threat to lemurs in the wild, it is essential to determine how human-induced habitat change is affecting their health. In 2003 a survey on the health and disease ecology of wild ring-tailed ...