Much is new at Philadelphia Zoo this summer, including a unique way to see a group of endangered primates. America's first zoo has updated its Lemur Island exhibit to allow guests to venture inside of ...

A Houston man faces federal charges alleging he sold ring-tailed lemurs and Mexican spider monkeys and smuggled primates into ...

SANTA ANA, California -- A lemur stolen from a California zoo last weekend is back in captivity. According to police, someone stole a ring-tailed lemur named Isaac and released two monkeys onto Santa ...

What do you know about lemurs? I did not know much before I went to Madagascar earlier this year, just that they are somehow related to monkeys, and that some of them have huge round eyes. Now I have ...

Philadelphia Zoo has a lot going on. The zoo is celebrating a new Lemur Island walk-through experience, the arrival of a species that has been absent for almost 100 years and the births of several ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers; lesser ...

Prosimians (a name literally meaning pre-monkey, now used as a catchall category for lemurs, lorises and bush babies) tend to have proportionally smaller brains than their cousins, the monkeys and ...

A Houston man is facing federal charges over accusations he illegally sold endangered lemurs and spider monkeys for thousands of dollars. Justin Treadwell, of Houston, on Tuesday was charged with ...

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