These lemurs have staged their own special tribute to King Julien XIII from the film Madagascar with an extraordinary dance routine. The moves are not just for entertainment though, this Sifaka lemur ...

Conservationists at Chester Zoo are joyfully marking the birth of a critically endangered Coquerel's sifaka lemur - one of Madagascar's most distinctive animals. The newborn, weighing approximately ...

A critically endangered primate, nicknamed the dancing lemur because of the way it moves, has been bred for the first time in Europe, a zoo has said. Chester Zoo said the birth of the baby Coquerel's ...

Chester Zoo is celebrating the birth of a baby Coquerel's sifaka. Also known as a 'dancing lemur', the species is one of the rarest primates in the world. Keepers say that both mother and baby are ...

In the dry deciduous forests of south western Madagascar there lives a lemur that loudly cusses but “dances” like a ballet performer. Verreaux’s sifaka is among the most popular of lemur species, a ...

These nimble lemurs aren't hopping mad – they're just in the mood for dancing at a private wildlife reserve in southern Madagascar. The striking-looking Verreaux’s sifaka, also known as white sifaka ...

The Verreaux's Sifaka, otherwise known as Dancing Sifaka, who was caught strutting its stuff in Madagascar, has definitely learnt a lesson or two from King Julian - from the 2005 film 'Madagascar' ...

Every morning groups of Sifaka lemurs troop across clearings in the Madagascan forest in the fastest way possible to avoid predators and reach their foraging grounds deep in the jungle. The shy ...

This lemur is not at all shy - as this series of photographs shows it dancing for the camera. The Verreaux's Sifaka, otherwise known as Dancing Sifaka, who was caught strutting its stuff in Madagascar ...