Flexible Diet May Help Leaf-Eating Lemurs Resist Deforestation

Fruits and veggies are good for you and if you are a lemur, they may even help mitigate the effects of habitat loss.

A new study sequencing the genome of four species of sifakas, a genus of lemurs found only in Madagascar's forests, reveals that these animals' taste for leaves runs all the way to their genes, which are also...