The San Juan Islands Group consists of 172 named islands of the more than 700 islands, islets and reefs identified at low tide and more than 400 at high tide. Additionally, the map shows the roads that connect the various communities and reach various points of interest on each of the four major islands.
View image of Blue-eyed black lemur (credit: David Haring of the Duke Lemur Centre). With lemurs in immediate danger, few conservationists have looked further ahead to how climate change could affect the animals.
Endangered lemurs' complete genomes are sequenced and analyzed for conservation. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- For the first time, the complete genomes of three separate populations of aye-ayes -- a type of lemur -- have been sequenced and analyzed in an effort to help guide conservation efforts.he aye-aye -- a type of lemur -- has a long, thin, and flexible middle finger to extract insect larvae from trees, filling the ecological niche of a woodpecker.