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Take your pick: Aye-aye joins ranks of snot-eaters
AFP, Published on 28/10/2022
» PARIS - When scientists caught the aye-aye on video using its strangely thin, eight-centimetre-long middle finger to deeply pick its nose, it pointed towards a larger mystery: why exactly do some animals eat their own snot?
Madagascar's lemurs enjoy respite as tourism struggles
AFP, Published on 24/09/2020
» ANDASIBE, Madagascar: Perched on a branch, the lemur blinks back intently at a group of gawking tourists disrupting a coronavirus-induced spell of tranquillity outside Madagascar's Andasibe national park.
Rare twin red-ruffed lemurs born at Singapore zoo
AFP, Published on 17/07/2020
» SINGAPORE - Twin red-ruffed lemurs have been born at Singapore zoo, officials said Thursday, a rare double delivery that is a boost for the endangered saucer-eyed primates.
Nearly all Madagascar's lemur species 'face extinction'
AFP, Published on 09/07/2020
» PARIS - Almost all species of lemur, the small saucer-eyed primates native to Madagascar, face extinction, an international conservation body warned on Thursday, adding to its growing list of animals and plants under threat.
Poachers threaten precious Madagascar forest and lemurs
AFP, Published on 22/04/2019
» VOHIBOLA (MADAGASCAR) - Under a leaden sky, six rangers walk silently in single file through Vohibola, one of the last primary forests in eastern Madagascar.