Madagascar - A World Apart: Creature Features, Lemurs

Madagascar - A World Apart: Creature Features, Lemurs
By Dr. Kenneth Glander
The Living Edens
PBS.org

Ask the person next to you what a lemur is and he or she may not even know it's an animal. Someone more acquainted with the tree-hopping, furry creatures might guess they're related to squirrels or cats. But the truth is, lemurs are more closely related to you and me.

Lemurs are primates, an order that includes monkeys, apes and humans. There are approximately 32 different types of lemurs in existence today, all of which are endemic to Madagascar; a single island country off the southeast coast of Africa.

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Since 1991, Dr. Kenneth E. Glander has been the Director of the Duke University Primate Center in North Carolina. Duke's Primate Center is the world's leading facility dedicated to prosimian primates.