The family of the world’s smallest primate just got a little bigger. U.S. and Malagasy primatologists have discovered a new species of mouse lemur, an arboreal, fist-size animal on the African island ...

Nature is not pretty. Predators eat their prey. Savage instincts trump docility. Which is why the lead characters in the delightful “Madagascar,” four African animals raised in captivity at a glitzy ...

Yes, computer animators, it’s really cool how you make each individual hair in a lion’s mane stand out. And the way you fill the screen with striped zebras is a wonder to behold. But is it too much to ...

Ben Stiller’s Alex the lion is amusing, Chris Rock’s Marty the zebra gets off some jokes, but the zany penguins steal the show in the animated “Madagascar” ($29.99). (Don’t miss the penguins’ ...

'Madagascar' is this week's animated Matinee Movie on Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith star as the voices of four zoo animals who hang up ...

The new summer feature from Dreamworks Animation, Madagascar, neatly exemplifies the problems faced by the company and its main rivals (Disney and Pixar) in executing a complex feat: welding their ...

What’s your show like? Jungle Bob: I do a general animal show: the ferret, the rabbit, maybe the hedgehog, a snake or two, sometimes some bugs, a couple lizards, a turtle, tortoises... I do Bob’s Bug ...

IT was probably the weirdest sound I’d ever heard. There we were, our first morning in Madagascar, breakfasting on the veranda of a jungle lodge near Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, munching on Paris ...