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Lemurs are the most endangered mammals on Earth
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Duke Lemur Center
Founded in 1966 on the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC, the Duke Lemur Center is a world leader in the study, care, and protection of lemurs—Earth’s most threatened group of mammals.
With more than 200 animals across 14 species, the DLC houses the world’s largest and most diverse population of lemurs outside their native Madagascar.
Our Mission
To advance science, scholarship, and biological conservation through non-invasive research, community-based conservation, and public outreach and education.
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Claiming your bed before your roommate moves in like...
We're so excited to join in welcoming Duke students to campus for the fall semester! 🎉 While we hope everyone will have a chance to visit us during their time at Duke, note that tours need to be booked in advance in order to visit. Tours are SOLD OUT for this weekend (Fri-Sun), but now is a great time to plan your visit for the future!
More information about how to book a tour or how to get involved at the DLC can be found at lemur.duke.edu!
📷 = Sara Clark
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How could anyone deny this baby the best bed in the room.
Omg this angel
🥰 so cute
"Paint me like your French girls"
I love how cozy looking they are!!
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It's almost time for our fat-tailed dwarf lemurs to live up to their name!
This week, we began to prepare our dwarf lemurs for their annual winter hibernation by modifying their diets to include more sugary fruits. They will convert these sugars to fat that will allow them to enter a low-energy state for the winter in NC or dry-season in Madagascar!
Learn more about this process and how we are using non-invasive research to better understand it at lemur.duke.edu/discover/research-philosophy-and-themes. ... See MoreSee Less
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Chonk alert!
It's so cute
Reece Meredith fat tailed dwarf lemur is exactly what Fury is
Acacia Rowland
Precious
They were so incredible to see on the tour on Monday. Mary Grimes.
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Ring-tailed lemurs are photogenic from every angle!
While it looks like Liesl is practicing for her modeling career, she is also staying vigilant for any threats to her family's group. In Madagascar, that would include birds of prey or fossa.
Here at the DLC, they are safe from predators. Still, you will often find lemurs looking around and alarm-calling at a suspicious-looking vulture or low-flying helicopter!
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Liesl would make a great model! Beautiful!
Does the Life Flight helicopter 🚁 drive them nuts?😅
Draw me like one of your French lemurs.
I’m too sexy for my….
Now show me , sassy !
Photobombers.
Katelyn Garrett beautiful
Oh to be so beautiful…
Simply beautiful.
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Guests and fans of the DLC often ask what our lemurs eat in their forested habitats. The answer? Everything!
Hermione is showing off her selections, including some fallen pine branches and fresh leaves. Soon, our lemurs will be devouring muscadine grapes and acorns. Yum!
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Our ruffed lemurs like to eat the mushrooms that grow in their habitat some times :) It's so funny to see all the stalks hanging out of their mouths as they munch on them :D
Pine needles are full of vitamin C!
I love this pic! She’s such a beauty 💕
Those eyes, the fur! Adorable!
Where are they in the winter months?
Hermione is beautiful❣️
Handsome
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Pompeia's family includes the oldest Coquerel's sifaka at the DLC (26-year-old Gordian) and the youngest (5-month-old Cornelia)!
Gordian doesn't have much to do with raising his youngster, which is pretty typical for male Coquerel's sifakas. Female dominant societies mean the mom gets to decide if the dad is involved in caring for an infant. Pompeia prefers to do it all herself!
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My adopted’s family!!❤️❤️You’re all beautiful 🤩
They are just so incredibly beautiful... unfortunately, I have yet to see one in real life...I certainly hope I will get to someday.
Look at these little goblins <3
Adorable! Just like many families, the hard work is left to the mother😀
So Francesca is no longer part of Pompeia’s family? 😂
Kathleen Have you seen baby Cornelia?
Elisabeth Joy omg!
My adopted family!?
That's my girl!!
Long reign, Pompeia.
❤ Too Cute!
Sierra Lee
Such a character.
How beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful❣️
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Thanks to your generosity in purchasing from our Amazon Wishlist, the aye-ayes are enjoying LOTS of tasty coconut right now! Binx is still figuring out how this new snack works, so he needed some encouragement from his caretaker.
Wishlist items allow us to provide enrichment, bedding, and training treats to all of our animals. Right now, our Wishlist is full of bedding and additional snacks for our nursing mothers as we get through baby season. Check them out and buy a lemur a present at duke.is/4aubm. ... See MoreSee Less
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We just ordered for these adorable babies!!! ❤️😍
Will be checking wish list soon! Binx is so adorable! All the aye ayes are, but he is exceptionally cute. He reminds me of the late Winnie.
Sending meal worms soon!
Awww the aye ayes are so cute.
Mary Grimes they like coconut almost as much as I do.
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Our bush babies, aye-ayes, and small nocturnal lemurs eat more than 700 insects every day at the Duke Lemur Center!
Each insect is counted by hand to make sure every animal is getting the portion they need to stay nice and healthy.
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Looks excited for such a yummy meal!
That is alot of insects... can't say I am a big fan of bugs... although I know they have a purpose ..but I absolutely adore lemurs...so keep on eating cutie pies.💗
Oh how I love the bush babies!! This little cutie has stolen my heart❤️
This little mouse lemur is so adorable! The insects on the other hand, I am glad they like them, but not for me.😀
These lemurs are so beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️
He loves you and Jake Allie 💜💜
What do you do when more than one animal is in a single enclosure and one is more enthusiastic than the other in eating (eats more than half)?
So adorable ❤️
Unbelievable. One question, do they like roaches?
. . . when someone says "bush baby" — and you're a Stanley Kubrick fan . . . . youtu.be/vWwo6JpMceg
Adorable 🥰
Yummy!
One for me, one for you. One for me, one for you.
If only they could live in my backyard. :)
Elisabeth Joy kinda looks like you?
Cutest Bush Baby!!
So cute ❤️
Caption: Mmmmorios!
Janina Aninaj
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To develop sustainable alternatives to traditional farming practices, the DLC-SAVA Conservation Initiative collaborates with rural communities to teach and practice agroecology – a system of farming that mimics nature to increase soil fertility, crop productivity, and restore the landscape.
We visited with participants in our program to monitor and evaluate how well they are doing implementing these new techniques.
Click or tap on each photo to reach their stories!
Learn more about DLC-SAVA at lemur.duke.edu/protect. ... See MoreSee Less
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Great work Andrianty Ardhilles Jaozandry Esperio Rauchilla Razarasoavanana Rostella Chr Tina Wardji !
Last week marked the end of the Duke Lemur Center's summer 2022 internship program!
These 19 exceptional students were selected from our most competitive applicant pool yet. They spent 10 weeks of the summer learning about and conducting research in behavioral ecology, paleontology, animal welfare, husbandry, environmental education, and science communications.
The program culminated with our intern project symposium, where the interns presented their independent research projects to staff, family, and friends. Thank you, interns! ... See MoreSee Less
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Awsome. Congratulations. What's next for her?
👏👏👏job well done!!
Y'all were amazing!
So incredibly proud 💙
While black and white ruffed lemurs and Coquerel's sifakas occupy different habitats in Madagascar, many of our forested enclosures include multiple species.
Groups of animals tend to stick with their family members and only occasionally run into each other in the forest, usually around feeding time.
Coquerel's sifaka and ruffed lemurs have different favorite foods, places to rest, and ways of using the forest so they do not compete against one another for resources. Plus, it is an incredible chance to see how unique each lemur species is from one another!
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Looking so good y'all!
So cute!
Awesome 🤩
Love these babies having so much fun.