Mike Jordan, Chester Zoo's collections director, said: "After overcoming their initial nervousness, Hajao, Rak, Ilo and Pia have settled well into their new home and are getting along famously with their bolshie neighbours - a group of ring-tailed
lemurs and five red ruffed
lemurs."
There are five species of
lemurs living at the safari park and visitors are provided with the unique opportunity to see them up close.
CELIZABETH ARCHER goes wild for the newest wellness trend "lemoga" - yes, you read right, that's yoga with
lemurs.
Because
lemurs can't swim, the scientists think they crossed the 402-kilometre-wide channel between mainland Africa and Madagascar after being swept out to sea in a storm, and holding onto broken trees or floating vegetation before washing ashore."But if the arrival were more recent, they might have had a shorter distance to travel, thanks to lower sea levels when the Antarctic ice sheet was much larger.
Klopfer expected much the same from two other dwarf
lemurs from an upland forest with cold, wet winters.
Lemur Resources is a Madagascan focused coal exploration company.
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Lemur appears fascinated with man's camera
We are in the planning stages for an action-packed week of seminars led by the most prestigious
lemur researchers and conservationists from all over the world, lemur-themed community events, and an exciting evening fundraiser consisting of dinner and live entertainment!
How many
lemur species are abundant, or common, in the wild?
Wright's initial mission, at the behest of her employers at the Duke University Primate Center, is to find evidence of the greater bamboo
lemur, which hasn't been spotted in decades.
WE'VE marched with penguins and gone mad for meerkats but now prepare to join team
lemur with a 3D film that hurls you into their incredible world.
Schwitzer and his team, who came up with the emergency
lemur preservation plan, have identified 30 priority sites for
lemur conservation, which will be managed at a local level.
Now a team from Newcastle University has mounted a mission to the forests of Madagascar to study five species of
lemur and the habitat on which they depend.
