Mouse lemurs sleep aloft during the day and forage at night for insects, fruit, flowers, and other plants. These adaptable primates store fat in their tails and hind legs, burning it when forage ...

Given the threat to lemurs in the wild, it is essential to determine how human-induced habitat change is affecting their health. In 2003 a survey on the health and disease ecology of wild ring-tailed ...

We have found that this leads to sex differences in health (Sauther et al. 2002). Males have a higher number of ectoparasites, a greater incidence of alopecia and have lower percentages of body fat ...