The wild sifaka is undoubtedly one of the most entertaining and delightful animals to watch in the entire animal kingdom.

The Maryland Zoo welcomed the newest member of its primate family with the Zoo’s first birth of its endangered lemur species.

The Maryland Zoo has announced the birth of an endangered lemur, called a Coquerel’s sifaka, marking the first arrival of ...

A type of lemur, a silky sifaka weighs between 11 and 14 pounds and measures up to three-and-a-half-feet long. Silkies “fly like angels,” local people say, leaping as far as ten yards from ...

An endangered baby lemur was born at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, marking the first birth of the species — a Coquerel’s sifaka — at the facility since 2016, zoo officials announced Thursday.

The critically endangered Verreaux’s Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) is one of the 109 species of lemurs that currently are extant on Madagascar. A total of 17 species of lemurs have already gone ...

On this two-part NOVA/PBS Online Adventure, we will join scientists studying two of the island's most elusive creatures: the fossa, a cat-like carnivore; and the silky sifaka, a ghostly ...

Joel’s main goal is to photograph a lemur, the rare and acrobatic Decken’s sifaka. He journeys three days – one-way – just to get to the world’s only captive individuals. It’s that ...

Zoo officials said the sifaka family can be seen in the Zoo's ... from other lemurs by their upright posture and ability to leap more than 20 feet in a single bound. On the ground, they move ...

The wild sifaka is undoubtedly one of the most entertaining ... Sifakas use those powerful legs to leap quickly and go from tree to tree, often clearing distances of 30-40 feet.