Majorian, a male baby, was born Dec. 19, 2024, at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham. He is the third baby born to mother Lupicina and father Gabe, both part of the center’s conservation breeding program ...

they sequenced the genomes of 162 lemurs from Madagascar representing 50 species, by far the largest lemur genome sequencing effort to date. The international research team thus revealed the ...

The N.C. Zoo, outside Asheboro, also has lemurs. The park is home to the red-ruffed (Varecia rubra) species, which are the largest of the lemurs. They too are critically endangered. They can be ...

We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus. Perhaps you experience it yourself when passing a cafe or restaurant and ...

The island is known for its incredible biodiversity, with more than 90% of its wildlife found nowhere else on Earth.

Most people are familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting ...

The ongoing conflict in DRC between the M23 rebel group and the Congolese military does not only impact the human population.

Lemurs - those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa - are an evolutionary mystery. When the first lemurs appeared tens of millions of ...