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 ...

The Maryland Zoo has announced the birth of an endangered lemur, called a Coquerel’s sifaka, marking the first arrival of this lemur species at the zoo since their return in 2023. The newborn ...

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 ...

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 ...