Madagascar is home to a unique biodiversity with a large number of endemic species, among those many lemur species, including the mouse lemurs. This diversity is also found in their retroviruses, a ...

Hear the tale of an animal the Malagasy people associate with night spirits. Find out why mouse lemurs are at-risk in the only country they call home.

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Being smart pays off, as it allows for more balanced decision-making. However, the origins of these abilities during evolution remain largely unexplored. Only if smarter individuals enjoy better ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Madagascar is famous for its lemurs; their ancestors arrived 53 million years ago, and the largely predator-free island has ...

Newswise — Lemurs – those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa – are a mystery of evolution. When the first ones arrived there tens of ...

Animals in the wild may not have an annual planner to keep track of the year, but they nonetheless manage to keep to a strict calendar—for example knowing just what time of the year to breed and when ...

Madagascar is home to a unique biodiversity with a large number of endemic species, among those many lemur species, including the mouse lemurs. This diversity is also found in their retroviruses.