Science news articles about 'mouse lemur'

... and then played them back to grey mouse lemurs, noting what response, if any, ... of either other species”, say the researchers. Furthermore, the grey mouse lemurs seemed to ignore the calls of golden ...

Some Malagasy mouse lemurs are so similar that picking a mate of the right species, especially at night time in a tropical forest, might seem like a matter of pot luck. However, ...

... DNA of the tiny gray mouse lemur. Ancestors of the modern lemur colonized Madagascar about 75 ... million years ago, and since then, lemurs and their lentivirus-carrying African cousins have been evolving ...

The remains of an ancient HIV-like virus have been discovered in the genome of the Madagascan grey mouse lemur [Microcebus murinus] by a team led by Oxford University scientists. read more

... species to date." Elsewhere, species from tiny mouse lemurs to massive mountain gorillas face ... population of Critically Endangered greater bamboo lemurs (Prolemur simus) in a wetland 400 kilometers ...

... understanding of the family of viruses to which HIV belongs.Research into the Madagascan grey mouse lemur published by a team from Stanford University school of medicine, California, suggests that far ...