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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Actually, it’s not as bad as it sounds. Lemurs won’t take off an arm or cause a flesh wound. And the two youngest lemurs, which Mr. Miller and store manager Terry Zettek have raised from birth, are ...