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A wildlife trust is is celebrating the rare birth of red-ruffed lemur quadruplets.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

The fosa is categorized as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, and is at risk of extinction, as are almost all of its lemur prey.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024

Finally, another officer is able to grab the lemur and hold it still as his partner gently gets it “snuggled up” in the towel, the Springfield Police Department said in a Facebook post.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

Although humans don’t naturally hibernate, the ability is found in species from nearly every mammalian lineage, from Madagascar’s fat-tailed dwarf lemur to the arctic ground squirrel.

From Science Magazine ● May 24, 2023

Not everyone knows that a lemur is a primate found only on the island of Madagascar.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

As an ecologist who has studied chimpanzees and lemurs in the field in Uganda and Madagascar, I am fascinated by the environments that shaped our primate ancestors.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026

There’s a charity called Monkeys Without Borders, led by a woman who has “changed her name to Xotica Lemur, even though lemurs are not monkeys.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

He also questioned why the authority said the lemurs would be too noisy, despite its experts admitting this was "impossible to measure".

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

Owls and lemurs rotate their necks to look around.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2025

These included the elephant bird, a flightless creature ten feet tall and weighing almost half a ton—the largest bird in the world—and the giant lemurs, the globe’s largest primates.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari