A type of lemur, a silky sifaka weighs between 11 and 14 pounds and measures up to three-and-a-half-feet long. Silkies “fly like angels,” local people say, leaping as far as ten yards from ...

A female sifaka lemur perches on a branch over Wright’s ... One night, the monkey “made a leap for the parrot, and by the time we got the lights on, he was poised with his mouth open about ...

A bamboo lemur is seen at the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park in Madagascar, March 29, 2025. Madagascar, an Indian Ocean ...

Whereas the largest species at the Duke Lemur Center, the Coquerel’s sifaka, weighs as much as a house cat and ... so in 1996 she made the leap and joined the center full-time. “I didn’t plan to work ...

A Verreaux's Sifaka, my favorite lemur species in Kirindy ... Like all sifakas, it has a long tail that it uses as a balance ...

Joel’s main goal is to photograph a lemur, the rare and acrobatic ... a stone forest blanketed with razor-sharp rocks. The sifaka have adapted amazing leaping abilities, safely and easily ...

The silky sifaka ("she-fahk") is a case in point. One of the largest living lemurs, Propithecus diadema candidus has bushy white fur, a long white tail, and ghostly eyes. No one has ever ...

At present, there are only about 250 adult Silky Sifaka left in Madagascar. Did you know that the North of Madagascar shelters a splendid species of lemur with white and silky fur, the Silky Sifaka?

The lemur is from a species called Coquerel sifaka native to Madagascar which are known as dancing lemurs as they often are spotted standing on two legs and moving from side to side. The newborn ...

Chester Zoo is celebrating the birth of a baby Coquerel's sifaka. Also known as a 'dancing lemur', the species is one of the rarest primates in the world. Keepers say that both mother and baby are ...