Madagascar's living lemurs (order Primates) belong to a radiation recently ravaged by
extirpation and extinction. There are three extinct and five extant families (two with extinct …

I review new evidence on origins and adaptive radiation of Malagasy lemurs, a remarkably
diverse group containing 13% of living primate species. The number of recognized lemur …

COQUERELÃS SIFAKAS, a variety of lemur, rest in a forest in northwest Madagascar
(opposite page). These lower primates evolved from ancestral lemurs that may have …

When we first went to the Red Island to begin our respective studies of ring-tailed lemur
ecology (nearly twenty years ago), we were both struck by the sheer wildness of …

Seventeen species of large‐bodied lemurs recently lived on the island of Madagascar
alongside their smaller‐bodied still‐extant relatives. Called koala lemurs, monkey lemurs …

Holocene cave, marsh, and stream deposits on the island of Madagascar have yielded
thousands of “subfossil” specimens that document recent megafaunal extinctions …

Paleontological expeditions to Madagascar over the past two decades have yielded large
quantities of bones of extinct lemurs. These include abundant postcranial and cranial …

Inferring the behavior of extinct organisms is a formidable task, even under the best of
circumstances (Rudwick, 1964; Stern and Susman, 1983; Kay, 1984; Thomason, 1995) …

What is a lemur? Lemurs are non-human primates found on the island of Madagascar. They
occur nowhere else on Earth. To put it succinctly:“To be a non-human primate from …

A new fossil site in a previously unexplored part of western Madagascar (the Beanka
Protected Area) has yielded remains of many recently extinct vertebrates, including giant …