Thailand is sending almost 1,000 highly endangered lemurs and tortoises back to their home in Madagascar, in what both ...

A baby Bornean orangutan with a threatened natural habitat was recently born at the Toledo Zoo in Ohio, the zoo announced on June 28.The little one was born to parents Yasmin and Boomer.

Primate center officials say to avoid contact with escaped monkeys, they currently have eyes on the primates and are working ...

Harcourt, A. H. & Parks, S. A. Threatened primates experience high human densities: Adding an index of threat to the IUCN Red List criteria. Biological Conservation 109, 137-149 (2003).

Almost every species of lemur, wide-eyed primates unique to Madagascar, is under threat of extinction. That is the conclusion of an international group of conservationists, who carried out an ...

the latter one of the most threatened of all primates. Hunting by night, a house-cat-size linsang prowls into a camera trap for a portrait. PHOTOGRAPH BY Christian Ziegler Biologists regard Bioko ...

Primates receive a sense of security and well being when ... Keepers should never lower themselves to psychological game-playing with animals even if they are threatened and provoked or intimidated by ...

Nonhuman primates are wild animals whose behavioral and psychological needs are irreconcilable with the realities of a captive life as pets. They can also pose a serious threat to the people around ...

Right now, half of the world’s primates are under threat, but Russ is on a mission, to show how ethical tourism might help protect some of the World’s rarest species. As of this year ...

The pygmy mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world. Its head and body are less than two and a half inches long, though its tail is a bit more than twice that length. These threatened ...