Scientists report that ring-tailed lemurs respond more strongly to the scents and sounds of female lemurs when the scent they smell and the voice they hear belong to the same female -- even when she's ...

A new study has revealed that lemurs can make themselves appear larger than their actual size using sounds produced by a unique vocal cord structure. Vocal cords are a pair of folds in an animal's ...

When a golden bamboo lemur announces itself at dawn, its call brings to mind someone throwing up after a bad shrimp salad. Which makes creating beautiful music with these primate sounds a unique ...

In 1960, a young David Attenborough helped capture the first-ever audio of Madagascar’s largest lemur, the indri. Using a battery-powered portable tape recorder, he played the sounds back to the ...

Low-ranking male lemurs use the gift of gab to keep themselves in the good graces of female-dominated social groups. The misfit male ring-tailed lemurs rely on two sounds: a moan to keep tabs on their ...

Vocalizations are used by group-living animals as aggressive and submissive signals during agonistic interactions, and are also used to maintain dominance hierarchies in many species. For gregarious ...

In May, when rapper Pusha T released one ferocious diss track after another brutally targeting a then-dormant Drake, he illustrated one fundamental biological behavior: Kick ‘em while they’re down. In ...

Nightingales are among the most celebrated of all animal singers, no doubt earning their place through the complexity of ...

Infants respond to the voices of their doting parents — but it's not just human voices that hold them spellbound. In what may be a hallmark of our ancestry, human brains begin life hard-wired to hear ...

Using an unusually well-preserved subfossil jawbone, a team of researchers has sequenced for the first time the nuclear genome of the koala lemur (Megaladapis edwardsi), one of the largest of the 17 ...