Imagine this: a Sifaka lemur, with its strikingly large eyes and fluffy white fur, leaping sideways across the road with its arms raised, much like a ballerina. Such is a typical day in Madagascar’s ...

Lemurs - those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa - are an evolutionary mystery. When the first lemurs appeared tens of millions of years ...