When Jonas the lemur died in January, just five months short of his thirtieth birthday, he was the oldest of his kind. A primate called a fat-tailed dwarf lemur, Jonas belonged to a long-lived clan. Dwarf lemurs live two ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 30, 2015
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Madagascar's Cat-sized greater bamboo lemurs are considered one of the most endangered primate species on Earth. They almost exclusively eat a single species of bamboo, including the woody trunk, known as culm. But they prefer ...
Ecology
Oct 26, 2017
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In 2009, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 94 new relatives to our family tree. The new species include 65 arthropods, 14 plants, eight fishes, five sea slugs, one coral, and one fossil mammal. They ...
Ecology
Dec 14, 2009
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Some people watch the competition carefully for the slightest signs of weakness. Lemurs, on the other hand, just give them a sniff.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2018
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They are small, have a high reproductive output and live in the forests of Madagascar. During the 5-month rainy season, offspring are born and a fat pad is created to survive the cool dry season when food is scarce. But what ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 28, 2023
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Unless it leads to sex, adult male primates usually aren't very playful. Except if they’re Silky sifakas.
Plants & Animals
Oct 18, 2010
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A jungle. A rainforest. A wetland. A wilderness. Researchers have used various metaphors to describe the complex, interconnected community of microbes (most of them bacteria) living inside your body, and all over it too.
Ecology
Aug 23, 2022
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Careful matchmaking can restore genetic diversity for endangered lemurs in captivity, researchers report.
Ecology
Aug 22, 2017
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Humans aren't the only species whose social behaviors can impact their health. New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that Verreaux's sifaka, a species of wild lemur native to Madagascar, have gut microbes ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 6, 2021
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do we look when another person looks? Are we looking for objects of interest or perhaps a warning of impending danger? Or are we just plain nosey? Human tendency to follow another person's gaze - `gaze ...
Feb 2, 2009
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