Red-bellied lemurs are one of the world's rarest primates, with their numbers declining by more than 30% in recent years, according to the English zoo It's a massive win for red-bellied lemurs around ...

Aina, the 4-year-old red-bellied lemur, gave birth to her baby six weeks ago at the Chester Zoo after a 127-day pregnancy It's furry first at the Chester Zoo. The English zoo announced in a press ...

Scientists have found a direct link between physical contact and gut bacteria in red-bellied lemurs. Likely passed through 'huddling' behaviour and touch, the findings suggest implications for human ...

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Video taken by the zoo on May 14 showed the little one tightly clinging to its mother’s back as it explores the zoo enclosure. The baby, whose sex is yet-to-be determined, was born to first time ...

When observing wildlife behavior in a natural setting, researchers typically need to keep their distance, making it challenging to identify individual animals and track their movements and activity ...

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 ...

The bacteria in our guts plays a role in a whole host of things, influencing everything from weight to mood. Now, researchers have found that the rather irresistible red-bellied lemurs of Madagascar ...

Red-bellied lemurs are one of only a handful of mammal species in which the males are active participants in caring for their young. New University of Arizona-led research suggests that expectant ...

Instead of using tags or tracking collars, researchers are creating a database filled with lemurs’ faces that they’ll use to monitor large groups of the threatened species in a Madagascar rainforest.

Tracking individual lemurs—such as the endangered red-bellied lemur pictured here—is no easy task. But researchers hope that facial recognition software can help in the fight for the survival of the ...