Bryan Gardiner, Brent Hoff and Joshuah Bearman

Illustration by J.T. Steiny

Monkey News

2005 was a big year for primates and the primatologists who study them: More Lemurs Nicknamed the “eighth continent” for its vast biological diversity, Madagascar produced two new lemur species this year. Lemurs are the fuzzy ancestral (and endangered) cousins of monkeys and apes. All 49 species exist solely on......

Monkey News

Illustration by J.T. Steiny2005 was a big year for primates and the primatologists who study them: More Lemurs Nicknamed the “eighth continent” for its vast biological diversity, Madagascar produced two new lemur species this year. Lemurs are the fuzzy ancestral (and endangered) cousins of monkeys and apes. All 49 species......