The typical scent from a male year-round is bitter and used to mark its territory. But the scent changes during mating season to something more pleasant — at least to the female lemurs — and ...

Lemurs mark their territory by scent, serving notice of their presence to all who can smell. During mating season, male lemurs battle for dominance by trying to outstink each other. They cover ...

A research team led by the University of Tokyo analyzed the odors that male ring-tailed lemurs use when stink flirting with females. The odor molecules they identified could be the first known ...

There are more than 20 species of mouse lemurs, and several have been identified only in recent years. This is a rarity in primate research, and illustrates just how much remains to be known about ...

These results advance our knowledge of how male lemurs utilize agonistic vocalizations to maintain inter-individual relationships with males and females, and improve our overall understanding of the ...

Deforestation affects lemur feeding ecology. Some groups of lemurs now feed ... as the skull of an unidentified individual found in the forest shows the same pattern.This male was born with a ...

2002). Males have a higher number of ectoparasites, a greater incidence of alopecia and have lower percentages of body fat than females. Did you know that female ring-tailed lemurs are the “boss” and ...

To create their distinctive odour, male lemurs combine the strong but short-lived scent produced by their wrist glands, with longer lasting secretion from their shoulder glands. An action known as ...