Additional risks to the lemur population are being hunted and sold as pets for the exotic pet trade, and natural predators, ...

Rush weaves in and around her exotic pets with ease and cheerfulness and Cheerios, doling them out to the lemurs. They thrust their humanlike hands into the open boxes and draw out fistfuls of O ...

It means that people can't keep animals as pets unless they give them a safe place to live and look after them. Primates like monkeys and lemurs were included in this. People could keep them as ...

Primates face extinction crisis New great ape species identified Chimp communication gestures translated The hunting of lemurs for food, and their live capture for the pet trade has also emerged ...

Given the threat to lemurs in the wild, it is essential to determine how human-induced habitat change is affecting their health. In 2003 a survey on the health and disease ecology of wild ring-tailed ...

Thailand is sending almost 1,000 highly endangered tortoises and lemurs home to Madagascar in ... These species are highly sought-after in Asia as exotic pets, though replicating their natural ...