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Duke Lemur Center

3 days ago

Red ruffed lemur twins Kitt and Hubble enjoy a warm spring day out in their forest enclosure ☀️

➡️ lemur.duke.edu/onsite-tours

While we’re still in our off-season until May 5th, we’ve been able to add Walking with Lemurs tours week-of when we have the necessary weather and staffing. For the most up-to-date information on tours for a given week, check out the Lemur Tours page on our website, which lists all of the available tours for a given week. Our education team is hard at work scheduling as many tours as possible so that guests can enjoy this spurt of warm weather as much as the lemurs do! If we don’t have information about a given day posted, it either means that we aren’t able to add any additional tours or we have to wait until later in the week to make an official call 💙

We also run our Behind the Scenes tours and Wild Workshops throughout the off-season, so check out our website for information on those programs! All visits to the Duke Lemur Center require a reservation in advance, and all tickets can be purchased through our website 😊

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Duke Lemur Center

5 days ago

A block of wood is no match for a hungry aye-aye 😋 Three-year-old Binx, the youngest of the DLC’s ten aye-ayes, shows off the signature aye-aye percussive foraging technique on his worm feeder. As part of our aye-ayes’ diets, we prepare hollow blocks of wood filled with live worms. These mimic the bug-filled branches and logs in which wild aye-ayes forage. With his uniquely evolved tapping finger, Binx taps repeatedly on the wood and listens with his sensitive ears to determine where the delicious worms are hiding. He then chews into the block with his rodent-like incisors, which can break through almost any material, to create a hole through which to scoop out his snack. What a skilled animal! 😱 [🎥: Abby Flyer] ... See MoreSee Less

Duke Lemur Center

7 days ago

Happy International Women's Day!

On this International Women's Day, we're pleased to highlight the amazing women in Madagascar who work tirelessly to ensure food security for their families. DLC-SAVA Conservation is honored to work with networks of women farmers who are doing amazing things, innovating regenerative agriculture and changing the way they provide food for their families and communities 🪴

➡️ lemur.duke.edu/international-womens-day-2025

Check out our 3-part series on our website on one of those women's farming associations to learn more!

Special thanks to the Kathryn B. McQuade Foundation for supporting our women's farming associations, and to General Mills for supporting our regenerative agriculture program. All of our DLC-SAVA Conservation projects are funded by grants and donations, making our conservation efforts possible. You can support our work today with a tax-deductible donation at lemur.duke.edu/donate ✨

🎥: Riccardo Morrelas and James Herrera ... See MoreSee Less

Duke Lemur Center

1 week ago

Mama Lupicina and baby Majorian enjoying the fresh spring air ⛅️

While Coquerel’s sifaka infant Majorian is still too young to free-range in our forest enclosures, we have plenty of ways to ensure that everyone gets to have some fun in the sun! When it’s warm enough, the lemurs have access to screened-in outdoor patio spaces, allowing them to move freely between the indoor and outdoor parts of their enclosure. Our husbandry technicians attach branches and other structural enrichment to the fencing for the lemurs, but sometimes they prefer to dangle from the fencing itself! Three-month-old Majorian has been watching mom, dad, and big siblings climb and jump around their patio, so he’s started trying it out, too 🥹

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