There are about 100 species of lemur in existence, and nearly all of them live on the isolated island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. So their main diet is based on foods available within ...

Adventures are just part of life when you live in a zoo, and Bindi Irwin’s latest activity proves that. She took her 3-year-old daughter Grace Warrior on an afternoon trip to Lemur Island at Australia ...

Analysing DNA inside the guts of dung beetles could provide a useful way to monitor endangered lemur populations in Madagascar. Sergei Tarasov at the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki and ...

O'Mara, M. Teague. 2015. "Ecological risk aversion and juvenile ring-tailed lemur feeding and foraging." Folia primatologica; international journal of primatology, 86 ...

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