How changes in lemur brains made some mean girls nice Date: April 21, 2025 Source: Duke University Summary: If there was a contest for biggest female bullies of the animal world, lemurs would be ...

You can’t bluff a lemur. Humans can put on their “game face” to appear tough, but ring-tailed lemurs use scent to size up their opponents. That means these smallcat-size primates from ...

A hamster-sized primate from Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur is our closest genetic relative known to hibernate. They also tend to live longer than you’d expect given their size. New research ...

Lemur is an openly accessible language model optimized for both natural language and coding capabilities to serve as the backbone of versatile language agents. As language models continue to evolve ...

Some creatures have a way to reverse this process, at least temporarily. Consider the fat-tailed dwarf lemur of Madagascar. This hamster-sized primate can turn back the cellular aging clock and ...

Lemurs - those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa - are an evolutionary mystery. When the first lemurs appeared tens of millions of years ...

Lemurs and monkeys—two cuddly-looking primates—may have captured your fancy as a child. It’s also possible you didn’t realize that lemurs were different from monkeys. After all, the two general ...

As of 2020, 33 lemur species were critically endangered, with 103 of the 107 surviving species threatened with extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Banner image: A ring-tailed lemur in a tamarind tree in a reserve in Madagascar. (Credit: CC photo by Frank Vassen via Wikimedia Commons) In 2003, a team of primatologists led by CU Boulder trapped, ...

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 ...