Good things come in threes—meet Monstera, Ficus, and Pothos! 🪴
On May 29, 2024, experienced gray mouse lemur mom Fauna gave birth to triplets! Ficus, one of the two boys, was born at a tiny 5.5 grams, while sister Monstera and brother Pothos were born at a more standard weight of just over 7 grams apiece. Keeper Kathryn, the family's primary caretaker, named the infants after common houseplants 🌱
When gray mouse lemur infants are under a month old, their caretakers will often mark their foreheads with colored dots to tell twins or triplets apart. Ficus has a black dot on his head in a few photos, and Pothos can be spotted with a blue dot ⚫️🔵
Want to learn more about this tiny trio? Check out their birth announcement at lemur.duke.edu/fauna2024, featuring side-by-side photos of the infants at different stages of development over the course of their first month of life ✨
📸: 1 - the triplets at nine days old (Kathryn F.); 2 - Ficus at one month old inside the family's nest (David Haring); 3 - Monstera at three days old (Kathryn F.); 4 - Pothos at nine days old (Kathryn F.); 5 - Ficus at thirteen days old (Kathryn F.); 6 - the triplets at sixteen days old (Kathryn F.); 7 - the triplets at one month old (David Haring)
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Enjoy some new photos of everyone's favorite ring-tailed rascals 😈😈
At four months old, Eowyn and Merry are becoming quite the handful! Volunteer photographer David Haring brought Sierra Mist and her family some fresh muscadine grapevine, and the twins eagerly dug into their tasty snack. Eowyn and Merry are beginning to grow into their personalities, and they're also starting to get more visually distinct from one another. The first photo features Eowyn reaching toward the camera, and the second shows Merry chomping on tiny grapes. Can you tell who's who in the final shot? 🤔
📸: David Haring ... See MoreSee Less
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Merry on the left and Eowyn on the right?
Beautiful.
❤️❤️
Can you spot the family resemblance? 🤔
Did you know that 19-year-old Kizzy, our oldest black and white ruffed lemur, is actually a great-grandmother? Orbit (second photo) is just one of Kizzy's eight great-grandkids currently living at the DLC. This lovely matriarch currently lives with her grandson Herschel and free-ranges in one of our smaller natural habitat enclosures. Many of our black and white ruffed residents are descended from this icon! 🩷
📸: Aditya Baliga ... See MoreSee Less
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Beautiful Kizzy💜What a legacy!
They are both the cutest little things ever
Kizzy will always be my favorite! 💖
‼️ ATTENTION: Unfortunately, due to the full day thunderstorm forecast, we are cancelling ALL tours tomorrow, Friday 7/12‼️
All guests who had purchased tickets for our Walking with Lemurs tours and General Tour have received an email with instructions on how to request a refund/reschedule. We hope everyone stays safe and dry!
📸: David Haring ... See MoreSee Less
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Stay safe & keep all my favorites safe too!
Keep safe and dry Lemurs and all the staff at Duke Lemur Centre.
Keeping those babies safe.
The many faces of Coquerel's sifaka Ferdinand 😁
This sweet eleven-year-old male lives with younger sister Gertrude and free-ranges daily in one of our natural habitat enclosures. He gets his handsome good looks from his father, the late Jovian aka Zoboomafoo, and spends most of his day foraging for tasty snacks. Sifakas tend to be folivores, leaf-eating specialists that require high levels of fiber in their diet. Coquerel’s sifakas eat over 100 different leaf species and have a long intestinal tract that allows time for these tough leaves to break down in their gut and provide them with the nutrients they need 🌿
📸: Sara Nicholson ... See MoreSee Less
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Ferdinand, seeing you has made my day! You are so very handsome❤️You and Gertrude are living your best lives at the DLC❤️❤️
Ferdinand is so cute. Favorite of day!
Ferdinand is extremely handsome.
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Join us on one of our Walking with Lemurs tours for an immersive forest experience! 🍃
➡️ lemur.duke.edu/wwl
We’re offering this unique tour experience Thursdays through Mondays each week through the end of September, at two different morning time slots. Early risers will see the lemurs released into the forest at 8:15am and follow members of three different species as they begin their daily exploration. On our 10:30am tours, guests will join our tour guides in searching the forest for these lemur troops as they bask in the late morning sun. On your adventure, you will get to observe lemurs engaging in a suite of natural behaviors as they navigate the woods, with no fencing or barriers in front of your eyes or your camera’s lens 📸
We have availability as early as this weekend, so book your tickets now! Reservations must be made in advance, and tickets can be purchased on our website ✨
🎥: Abby Flyer ... See MoreSee Less
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I am not a morning person, sadly...but one day I will schedule a tour (if only so I can snack while watching the lemurs snack...lol) and wake early. Now if you had nighttime, I could see all the little mouse lemurs, etc. that are nocturnal like I am. Really cute video!
I would highly recommend this experience! It was so much fun!
Can't wait to go back!!! All of the lemurs were so fun to watch!
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Happy #tongueouttuesday from ring-tailed lemurs Randy and Nyx 😝
Eighteen-year-old Randy, who you may know as the ring-tailed lemur representative for our Adopt a Lemur program, free-ranges in one of our largest natural habitat enclosures. He lives in a small troop with breeding partner Sophia, daughters Nemesis and Nyx, and geriatric mixed-species companions Cardinal and Kidman. Randy is known for having one of the most gorgeous tails at the DLC, and it seems like one-year-old Nyx has inherited dad's good genes! Nyx uses her beautiful tail to help counterbalance her weight as she walks along a slender branch 🌿
📸: Sara Nicholson ... See MoreSee Less
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So wonderful to get to see these beauties.
Randy and Nyx both so cute & favorites of day!
Gotta love that Randy!!!
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Good things come in threes—meet Monstera, Ficus, and Pothos! 🪴
On May 29, 2024, experienced gray mouse lemur mom Fauna gave birth to triplets! Ficus, one of the two boys, was born at a tiny 5.5 grams, while sister Monstera and brother Pothos were born at a more standard weight of just over 7 grams apiece. Keeper Kathryn, the family's primary caretaker, named the infants after common houseplants 🌱
When gray mouse lemur infants are under a month old, their caretakers will often mark their foreheads with colored dots to tell twins or triplets apart. Ficus has a black dot on his head in a few photos, and Pothos can be spotted with a blue dot ⚫️🔵
Want to learn more about this tiny trio? Check out their birth announcement at lemur.duke.edu/fauna2024, featuring side-by-side photos of the infants at different stages of development over the course of their first month of life ✨
📸: 1 - the triplets at nine days old (Kathryn F.); 2 - Ficus at one month old inside the family's nest (David Haring); 3 - Monstera at three days old (Kathryn F.); 4 - Pothos at nine days old (Kathryn F.); 5 - Ficus at thirteen days old (Kathryn F.); 6 - the triplets at sixteen days old (Kathryn F.); 7 - the triplets at one month old (David Haring) ... See MoreSee Less
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Fauna, your babies are so gorgeous!! So wonderful to see how much they’ve changed in a month❤️❤️❤️I am in love😍
Good work, Fauna! Such cute babies!
Monstera, Ficus, and Pothos are so adorable! So tiny, yet so expressive. Favorites of day!
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Screaming for Saturday with our ruffed lemurs 🗣
If you've ever visited the DLC, you may have heard the loud, raucous alarm calls of our ruffed lemurs. In the wild, these ear-splitting vocalizations can serve several purposes: they allow distant members of the same group to maintain contact with each other even when they are foraging separately, they warn would-be competitors of territory already occupied, and they might also serve to alert other group members of the presence of an aerial or ground predator. Unlike most other diurnal lemur species, which move through the forest and forage as a group, ruffed lemurs will split up and spread out, so it's extra handy to have calls that can sound for half a mile in every direction 😱
📸: Aditya Baliga ... See MoreSee Less
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That is way too cool! Thank you DLC Team for making the world a better place and protecting such wonderful creatures
Love being a neighbor to these beauties!
Amazing shots!
It's Cirilla's world, and we're all just living in it 💕
Life in matriarch Alena's ring-tailed lemur troop currently revolves around her three-month-old daughter, Cirilla. While Cirilla still spends most of her time on mom's back, this tiny girl grows more adventurous every day. Thankfully, big brothers Jasper, Mr. Popper, and Atticus are more than willing playmates! All of our staff are so proud of the progress Cirilla has made, from being born premature and underweight, to growing in both size and personality 🥰
Check out the lemur cuddle pile in the last photo—Cirilla and Jasper have the same oversized ears as they look up at the camera!
📸: David Haring ... See MoreSee Less
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Cirilla is adorable! Looks like her siblings too. Favorite of day!
Cirilla, you go girl!! We know you’ve got your brothers wrapped around your cute little finger!❤️
I love these Lemurs. They really are so cute.
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Happy Fourth of July from all of the primates at the DLC! Enjoy some photos of our talented artists painting with festive colors ❤️🤍💙
📸: Sara Sorraia ... See MoreSee Less
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Happy 4th, all!
And may we all recite now the Pledge of All Lemur Egence.
Happy 4th. 🥰