CARTER COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Elizabethton/Carter County Animal Shelter staff has been learning a lot about lemurs lately after two were rescued alongside numerous other animals from a local home.

One local organization is sharing why education is key for those who have ever thought about owning a lemur. Lemurs are ...

Hosts Kaitlen Daigle and Lauren Phinney sit down with Debra Erickson, executive director at Wildlife Madagascar, to talk about lemurs and what the organization is doing to improve the quality of life ...

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As a researcher looks on, a lemur takes a long whiff of a fruit growing from a tree in an eastern Madagascar rainforest. It passes the animal's test. The lemur takes a bite. Seconds later it sniffs at ...

We have a sort of obsession with lemurs in my house. It all started about 18 months ago when my younger daughter, six months at the time, was crying inconsolably. My older daughter, always ready to ...

Before Madagascar, lemurs lived under the radar. Today, King Julien is a household name and some of us think about his silly quotes a little too often. Little did we know that lemurs are such amazing ...

Just like humans, apes, and monkeys, lemurs are primates. More specifically, they are prosimian (literally pre-monkey) primates, the group with the deepest roots of the primate evolutionary tree.

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated when the rescue was made. A Texas woman experienced quite the surprise when she rescued an injured animal last month. The story started ...

Cereal description: Here’s a partial list of ingredients in Leapin’ Lemurs: “organic corn meal,” “organic whole grain corn meal,” “organic evaported cane juice,” “organic peanut butter,” “organic ...