When two opposing mongoose "armies" decide to face off, the ensuing brawl rivals a human battle. Often, blood is shed as the winning pack isolates and converges on the lone male mongoose that dared to ...

A new, tiny resident will now greet visitors to the St. Louis Zoo Primate House. Princess Buttercup, a female mongoose lemur, is the first of her species to be born and reared successfully at the zoo.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ST. LOUIS • St. Louisans, prepare to meet her royal majesty Princess Buttercup, a critically endangered baby mongoose lemur who ...

The female mongooses are strongly motivated to find mates in other groups, Michael Wilson, a biological anthropologist at the University of Minnesota said. “But it’s really hard to do that because as ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. They say it takes a village to raise a child. The proverb also holds true, it turns out, for mongoose lemurs at the St. Louis Zoo ...