When an animal won't stay still long enough for to snap a photo, adding it to the Photo Ark can be a painful process. Watch Joel Sartore's photo shoot with this fast-moving brown mouse lemur.

BMC Ecology:the social interactions of brown mouse lemurs can be monitored by mapping the transfer of tagged lice. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Lonely hearts columns testify that finding a partner can be hard enough, but at least most human beings can be fairly certain that when we do we have got one of the right species. Things aren’t so ...

As leaves fall off the trees and temperatures grow bitingly cold, many animals prepare to hibernate for the winter. During this period, animals enter a state of torpor wherein they reduce their ...

TREE 2B, RANOMAFANA, is not an address recognised by Madagascar’s postal service. It is, though, someone’s home. The someone in question is a mouse lemur called Judah, the 349th participant to be ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo is home to red-ruffed, black-and-white ruffed, ring-tailed and collared brown lemurs. Learn more about these charasmatic animals with a few of my favorite lemur facts.

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 ...