Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Self-medicating animals are not new to the animal kingdom.

Most people's encounters with lemurs have occurred through their representations in popular children's media, like "Zoboomafoo" or "Madagascar." However, most people don't know that lemurs play an ...

What do you know about lemurs? I did not know much before I went to Madagascar earlier this year, just that they are somehow related to monkeys, and that some of them have huge round eyes. Now I have ...