Today, Madagascar is home to a mosaic of different habitats--a lush rainforest in the east and a dry deciduous forest in the west, separated by largely open highlands. But the island off the southeast ...

If you've ever watched a nature documentary featuring lemurs — or the animated feature "Madagascar," with characters King Julien, Maurice and Mort — you have probably fallen in love with the ...

ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Something adorable this way comes! The North Carolina Zoo is welcoming three new grey mouse lemurs—Cholula, Cedar and Speedwell. the trio come to the zoo from the Duke Lemur ...

What makes Madagascar’s wildlife so unique? What makes Madagascar’s wildlife so unique? The Surprising Reason Tiny Lemurs 'Grow' Their Own Gardens The Surprising Reason Tiny Lemurs 'Grow' Their Own ...

The Shanghai Zoo in China has a new animal on show - the cute gray mouse lemur. It can only be found in the wild on the island of Madagascar and weighs less than 67g. Quirky China News/Rex Features ...

Something to Google today: mouse lemurs. They weigh only about 50g and have big brown eyes. You may think you're looking at a very cute rodent. You're not. Despite their name, mouse lemurs are ...

That's where the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) comes in. These cartoonishly cute lemurs are raised by their mothers without help from dad. When they grow up, they head out of the nest to ...

Animals in the wild may not have an annual planner to keep track of the year, but they nonetheless manage to keep to a strict calendar—for example knowing just what time of the year to breed and when ...

HHMI Investigator Mark Krasnow and his colleagues conducted extensive phenotyping of hundreds of mouse lemurs, screening for anatomical and medical differences that could help locate the origins of ...

New research suggests that the design of the visual processing system of Madagascar’s gray mouse lemur holds secrets about the origins of vision for humans and for primates around the world. A single ...