Banner image: A ring-tailed lemur in a tamarind tree in a reserve in Madagascar. (Credit: CC photo by Frank Vassen via Wikimedia Commons) In 2003, a team of primatologists led by CU Boulder trapped, ...

Western Madagascar is home to some of the country’s poorest communities and its most endangered wildlife, presenting intertwined challenges for conservation. The region’s characteristic dry forests ...

A new list of the 25 most threatened primates has been published by the International Primatological Society, which held its 30th congress in Madagascar in July. More than 40% of primate species are ...

Madagascar is home to many unique species, including a variety of lemurs. But there's one species living in the island's forests that scientists hadn't quite been able to figure out until now: cats.

Thousands of the endangered primates end up on the dinner plates of people in the upper rung of the country’s society who have money to spare. By Dina Fine Maron Lemurs are charismatic primates known ...

What do you know about lemurs? I did not know much before I went to Madagascar earlier this year, just that they are somehow related to monkeys, and that some of them have huge round eyes. Now I have ...

Scientists have discovered that some ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar regularly retire to limestone chambers for their nightly snoozes, the first evidence of the consistent, daily use of the same ...

ANTANANARIVO — Which tropical habitats are worthy of conservation? Humid forests, with their dazzling species counts, easily gain notice. Dry forests may not boast the same numbers, but their unique ...

Camera trap photos on the Bezà Mahafaly Special Reserve in Madagascar captured images of, clockwise from upper-left: a dog and cat, a troop of ring-tailed lemurs and two Verreaux’s sifakas. In 2003, a ...