SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- "Maki," the ring-tailed lemur who captured the hearts of the public after he was kidnapped and recovered in October 2020, has died, the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens officials ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. -- Brookfield Zoo served up a thanksgiving feast on Wednesday to its lemurs. Like most family gatherings, they got to the table and just started digging in. Brookfield Zoo served up a ...

Ring-tailed lemurs belong to the family Lemuridae, which is one of five lemur families. It is the only member of the genus Lemur. There are over 100 kinds of lemurs and new species continue to be ...

Maki, who made headlines in 2020 after being stolen and then found by a 5-year-old, died this past week. Maki, the ring-tailed lemur who was stolen from the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens and later ...

This disease, found in a pet ring-tailed lemur, has never been reported in lemurs in the wild. It’s been illegal to keep lemurs as pets in Madagascar since 1962. But ring-tailed lemurs, such as this ...

Thousands of threatened lemurs are killed by specialist hunters every year to feed a lucrative urban market for their meat in cities across Madagascar. While rural subsistence hunting is seasonal and ...

WEBSTER — The Chase Rescue Sanctuary is anything but quiet. Eight ring-tailed lemurs run free in an indoor playground, bounding up rope ladders, vaulting onto swings, climbing across rafters and ...

Lemurs can sing with a sense of rhythm similar to humans, according to a study published Monday by Current Biology. Researchers studied 636 recordings of vocalizations from 39 adult indris, a type of ...

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Three frisky siblings have journeyed from New York to a new home in Bermuda. The red ruffed lemurs have joined the ring-tailed lemurs already resident in the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo’s ...

At the Duke Lemur Center, an innovative plan to keep the animals social late in life: pair them with lemurs of another species. By Sabrina Imbler Over the course of her 32 years, Cheyenne the ...

Lemur meat has become a discreet urban delicacy in Madagascar, with an estimated 13,000 lemurs sold annually in surveyed cities—mostly through hidden hunter-to-client channels. Peri-urban hunters run ...