Update: Added discussion on launch angle at the end of the post. Edit: The final numbers in this post went through a few rounds of revision. What is the world coming to, when you have to track down ...
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore has announced Anastasia, the 17-year-old Coquerel’s sifaka, died on Thursday.Zoo officials suspect the lemur suffered from Addison's disease - a rare disease that has ...
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 ...
A Coquerel's sifaka, a critically endangered type of lemur known for jumping vertically like a pogo stick, was born recently at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. The female infant is the third of its ...
Biologists provide the first abundance estimates of Coquerel’s sifaka an endangered lemur species, in its last main refuge, the Ankarafantsika National Park (ANP) in Madagascar. In a study now ...
Joel tries to photograph a diademed sifaka in the wild. For most of his Photo Ark shoots, Joel Sartore photographs animals in front of studio backgrounds at zoos and nature preserves. But without the ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American These medium-sized lemurs, known for their ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
At present, there are only about 250 adult Silky Sifaka left in Madagascar. Did you know that the North of Madagascar shelters a splendid species of lemur with white and silky fur, the Silky Sifaka?