They live only on Madagascar and, one by one, they are dying there. Impish, precocious and endearing, the planet’s last surviving lemurs have been cornered by man on a paradise island which has turned ...

Lemur meat has become a discreet urban delicacy in Madagascar, with an estimated 13,000 lemurs sold annually in surveyed cities—mostly through hidden hunter-to-client channels. Peri-urban hunters run ...

In the wild, lemurs feed on leaves and bark, or they forage for fruit. All of that is available to the lemurs in Durham, though their keepers deliver food trays, too. And while human children often ...