Massive lemurs once clung to Madagascar's trees. ... This giant, leaf-eating lemur was the size of a human and had paws like a koala. News. By Mindy Weisberger published 14 July 2021 ...

The stool samples revealed striking differences. The fruit-eating brown lemurs harbored similar collections of gut microbes regardless of where they lived on the island.

The lemurs’ lifestyle evolved to almost perfectly coincide with the bamboo peppered throughout the island’s rainforests. The primates’ reproductive cycles parallel the bamboo’s growth cycles.

How eating ‘bacon bugs’ helps save lemurs A National Geographic Explorer is betting on the tasty and nutritious insects as an alternate food source to the meat of Madagascar's endangered primates.

Maybe it wasn’t always this way on Madagascar. It seems like, over time, lemurs might have had to alter their eating habits in order to survive, which could explain how they ended up as leaf-eaters.

The gray mouse lemur, seen feeding on a meal worm, typically eats vegetation and insects. But a new study found one adult male lemur eating a female lemur, suggesting cannibalism in the species.

Fruits and veggies are good for you and if you are a lemur, they may even help mitigate the effects of habitat loss. ... Flexible diet may help leaf-eating lemurs resist deforestation.

The only lemurs so dependent on bamboo that they gnaw on hardened, nutrient-poor stems during the dry season might dwindle away as those seasons grow longer. Other animals, even another lemur ...

Lemurs aren't the only primates that go for leaves over fruit. So do howler monkeys. A March 2017 study found that primates that do eat fruit tend to have bigger brains.

The stool samples revealed striking differences. The fruit-eating brown lemurs harbored similar collections of gut microbes regardless of where they lived on the island.

Bamboo growth cycles and the lemurs’ dietary needs are increasingly out of sync. Skip to main content. Scientific American. October 27, 2017. 3 min read. Climate Change Is Making Bamboo-Eating ...