We have all heard amazing things about the sensory organs of other animals, how elephants can feel approaching predators through their feet and how dogs can track all the neighborhood news through a ...

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 ...

How do foraging animals find their food? A new study by New York University researchers shows that lemurs use smell, social cues, and long-term memory to locate hidden fruit—a combination of factors ...

One of the largest lemurs that ever lived was a hefty animal that weighed about as much as an adult human. Turns out, the behemoth attained its enormous size by eating leaves, according to an analysis ...

April 23 (UPI) --Several species of leaf-eating lemurs, or sifakas, in Madagascar also like to munch on flowers and fruit, returning to leaves when more nutrient dense food sources are scarce. The ...