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A video shows a lemur picking its nose, a behavior never before observed by scientists. The animal shoves one of her long agile fingers all the way up her nose to her throat. An accompanying study ...

With its wide-set yellow eyes, oversize ears and long, skeletal fingers, the aye-aye is not Madagascar's cuddliest-looking lemur. This elusive, nocturnal animal has joined a motley crew of rare ...

Humans aren't the only animals to pick their nose and eat the contents, a new study has shown. Researchers have for the first time documented the behavior in a primate known as the aye-aye, a most ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. One ...

A new study in aye-ayes is the first to review nose picking in primates and reports the first evidence of the habit in lemurs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Aye-ayes, the scraggly, bug-eyed, spindly-fingered lemurs of Madagascar, have historically been demonized by humans for their unusual and unappealing anatomy. But the species is going to have to get ...

The Duke Lemur Center has zeroed in on avocados as the cause of the deaths of four aye-ayes in October. Officials said a natural toxin found in avocados caused damage to the heart muscles of the ...

Travel centered around the world's cutest animals is a tourism trend that isn't going anywhere. From cafés in Northern Florida where you can snuggle up with capybaras to animal sanctuaries blending ...

LAS CRUCES - Deep in the rainforests of Madagascar lives an endangered lemur whose unique evolution is paving the way to improve non-destructive testing on aging infrastructure and composite materials ...