Every morning groups of Sifaka lemurs troop across clearings in the Madagascan forest in the fastest way possible to avoid predators and reach their foraging grounds deep in the jungle. The shy ...

This lemur is not at all shy – as this series of photographs shows it dancing for the camera. The Verreaux’s Sifaka, otherwise known as Dancing Sifaka, who was caught strutting its stuff in Madagascar ...

In the dry deciduous forests of south western Madagascar there lives a lemur that loudly cusses but “dances” like a ballet performer. Verreaux’s sifaka is among the most popular of lemur species, a ...

A small group of crowned sifaka lemurs Propithecus coronatus have been located in the corridor d’Amboloando-Dabolava, Miandrivazo district-Madagascar, but are immediately threatened with local ...

The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore has welcomed its third newborn Coquerel's sifaka, which is an endangered lemur, in the past two years.The newest addition to the sifaka brood is a boy named Max who was ...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A male Coquerel's sifaka, an endangered lemur native only to the island of Madagascar, has been born at the Maryland Zoo. Little Maximilian was born to Anastasia and Gratian on March ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The San Francisco Zoo opened a new exhibit on Friday, but first it took certain precautions. Two sifaka lemurs checked out their new habitat at the zoo's Primate Center. From ...

More than 90% of Madagascar’s lemurs “are on the verge of extinction,” says one of the country’s leading scientists. It is a grim prediction for the cute primates, which are only found on Madagascar ...

Madagascar's wildlife is almost wholly unique to the island. You've probably heard of lemurs, but how about tenrecs? Vangas? Mesites? Have you ever seen a giraffe-necked weevil? An octopus tree? The ...

The Verreaux's Sifaka, otherwise known as Dancing Sifaka, who was caught strutting its stuff in Madagascar, has definitely learnt a lesson or two from King Julian - from the 2005 film 'Madagascar' ...