If you have old jeans with deep pockets, the Duke Lemur Center could use them as nests for tiny mouse lemurs. “If you’re in the area and would be willing to donate your denim pockets, please cut them ...

New research suggests that the design of the visual processing system of Madagascar’s gray mouse lemur holds secrets about the origins of vision for humans and for primates around the world. A single ...

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Two new species of lemurs look so similar that it's impossible to tell them apart without sequencing their genes. The itsy-bitsy primates are both mouse lemurs, which are tiny, nocturnal lemurs that ...

To understand the mechanisms underlying the development of metabolic changes leading to obesity remains a major world health issue. Among such mechanisms, seasonality is quite underestimated although ...

Chronic caloric restriction strongly increases the lifespan of a small primate, the grey mouse lemur by 50%. This is one of the results of a ten-year experiment conducted by researchers at the CNRS ...

The nocturnal gray mouse lemur feeds on plants and invertebrates. Four of the species were imported into China. A feeder at the zoo said: "When we captured them for weighing, they often bite tightly ...

Tiny primates in Madagascar create accidental "gardens" with their poop, a new study says. Reddish grey mouse lemurs, which live in matriarchal clans of up to a dozen, tend to defecate close to home, ...

A grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus). Image from Wikipedia. Charles Darwin's visit to the Galapagos Archipelago has been celebrated time and again for its influence on his evolutionary thoughts, ...

The Duke Lemur Center has baby news! On July 24, the center welcomed three tiny grey mouse lemur triplets - Teazel, Pumpernickel and Bee Balm, according to a post on the center's Facebook page. These ...

Gray Mouse Lemur (Microcebus murinus). Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2009. New research supports the long-held belief that Madagascar’s mammals populated the island by rafting on clumps of vegetation ...