They use their tails to communicate and for balance. Ring-tailed lemurs eat fruits, flowers, leaves, bark, sap, insects, and sometimes soil for minerals. What are baby ring-tailed lemurs called?

Veterinarian Cathy Williams with a gray mouse lemur, the smallest lemur species housed at the Duke Lemur Center and the second smallest lemur in Madagascar. Some lemurs eat insects and grubs while ...

Two mongoose lemurs find cantaloupe hidden in a container at the Lemur Conservation Foundation in Florida. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

which is unusual among lemur species. They forage for fruit, which makes up the greater part of their diet, but also eat leaves, flowers, tree bark, and sap. Ring-tailed lemurs have powerful scent ...

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 ...