Blog Post Image: Female Lemurs Play It Safe, Live Longer, Study Suggests

Lemurs (Latin for “ghost” or “spirit”) are primates that live only on the island of Madagascar. Most are highly endangered as their native forests succumb to an increasingly dry climate and logging. The species studied here, the Milne-Edwards’ sifaka (Propithecus diadema), is estimated to have suffered a 50-percent population loss over the past three decades. (Image credit: Jukka Jernvall)

(Visited 8 times, 1 visits today)