Sentences with phrase «diademed sifaka»

Despite various efforts to stop the infection, such as quarantining infected lemurs and decontaminating their enclosures, more than half of the sifakas living at the center have tested positive for crypto at some point.

All of the infected animals are sifakas — the only lemur species out of 17 at the center known to fall prey to the parasite — and most of them were under age five when they got sick.

In a study published in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infection.

Young sifakas are more likely to get sick, but if researchers can figure out how older animals manage to fight the infection, they might be able to develop vaccines that provide infants the same protection.

The golden crowned sifaka, Propithecus tattersalli, is a lemur living in small social units in the north of Madagascar.

There are nine recognized species of sifakas in Madagascar, and all have similar social structure with only two reproducing adults and between two and four members.

The monitors reported the arrival of 233 dead indri and 121 diademed sifaka, another threatened species.

Some lemurs, like crowned sifakas, could fare relatively well.

Down for the count: Cryptosporidium infection depletes the gut microbiome in Coquerel's sifakas.

The female sifaka, though, show how some animals can chance on trichromacy even if most of the other members are dichromats, meaning they have only two types of cone cells.

Coincidentally, Bradley had sequenced the genomes of nearly 100 Verreaux's sifaka in a different Malagasy forest in 2005, as a postdoc.

On hikes, look for more than ten species of lemurs, including red - bellied lemurs, Milne - Edward's sifakas, and greater dwarf lemurs; as well as tenrecs; mongooses; and myriad butterflies, frogs, and birds.

We found one Verreaux's sifaka, who was enjoying the sun atop a tamarind tree at the camp entrance, gazing down on all this as though it were as strange to him as to us, and perhaps slightly embarrassing.

In an e-mail last week, she described her decade of work there, in which she focused on several severely endangered primates, including the silky sifaka, which is restricted to the Marojejy National Park and surrounding regions.