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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.

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To advance science, scholarship, and biological conservation through non-invasive research, community-based conservation, and public outreach and education.

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Annual Newsletter: DLC-SAVA Conservation

Curatorial Team Receives 2022-23 Presidential Award

Beyond Lemurs: Madagascar’s Endangered Biodiversity

What Does It Mean to Be a Primate?

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19 Sep

Online Auction Is Open for Bids

Worldwide/Virtual

21 May

Lemurpalooza!

Duke Lemur Center

4:30 PM to 6:30 PM

23 Apr

Third Annual Stay Away 5K

Wherever You Are

Earth Day Weekend (April 23-24, 2022)

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Duke Lemur Center
2 days ago
Duke Lemur Center

Want to spend your summer with views like this?? 🤩

Education docent volunteer applications are now open for the 2023 tour season! Absolutely no previous lemur knowledge or public speaking experience required – just an enthusiasm for learning and meeting new people. Check out the link below for full details:

lemur.duke.edu/volunteer

📸: Crowned lemur Ma’at snacking on the summer tour path in 2022 (photo by Bob Karp) ... See MoreSee Less

Want to spend your summer with views like this?? 🤩 Education docent volunteer applications are now open for the 2023 tour season! Absolutely no previous lemur knowledge or public speaking experience required – just an enthusiasm for learning and meeting new people. Check out the link below for full details: lemur.duke.edu/volunteer 📸: Crowned lemur Ma’at snacking on the summer tour path in 2022 (photo by Bob Karp)
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Such an awesome opportunity!

My dream job, shame I live in the UK 😬

Would love it

Duke Lemur Center
4 days ago
Duke Lemur Center

Coquerel’s sifaka Gertrude is just getting some light reading done over the weekend! 📖

📸: Sara Sorraia ... See MoreSee Less

Coquerel’s sifaka Gertrude is just getting some light reading done over the weekend! 📖 📸: Sara Sorraia
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Adorable! Favorite of day! Looks like she is reading article on herself!

A great look at, "Gertrude the Learned".

Adorable 🤗 One of the cutest species 😉

This is beautiful!

Cutie Patootie ❤️

Lisa Maruschak this is my favorite kind of lemur.

So cute❣️

Does she miss her famous dad? :'(

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Duke Lemur Center
6 days ago
Duke Lemur Center

Special staff shout-out! 🏅

Our Curatorial Team was recently awarded Duke’s 2022-23 Presidential Award! They were one of five teams at the university to receive this highest staff and faculty honor for embodying Duke’s values 💙 We’re so proud of these wonderful women for all of the effort and passion they put into caring for our colony of critters 🤩

Read more about our award-winning team here: today.duke.edu/2023/01/dukes-2022-23-presidential-award-winners-embrace-challenges-craft-innovati...

From left: Britt Keith, Kristin Clark, Meg Dye
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Special staff shout-out! 🏅 Our Curatorial Team was recently awarded Duke’s 2022-23 Presidential Award! They were one of five teams at the university to receive this highest staff and faculty honor for embodying Duke’s values 💙 We’re so proud of these wonderful women for all of the effort and passion they put into caring for our colony of critters 🤩 Read more about our award-winning team here: https://today.duke.edu/2023/01/dukes-2022-23-presidential-award-winners-embrace-challenges-craft-innovative-solutions From left: Britt Keith, Kristin Clark, Meg Dye 📸: Sara Sorraia
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My heartfelt congratulations👍🏼👏🏼🥂‼️ it is a testimonial to the quality of the work by the entire staff and volunteers❤️

Awesome! So richly deserved!!!!

Congratulations, well-deserved!

So well deserved! These are remarkable women and I am honored to work with them!

Well deserved recognition. Fantastic!

Congrats! I just read about the award in my newsletter. Well deserved!

Congratulations!

Great congratulations!

Congratulations

Congratulations!! 🥳🎉🎉🎉

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Congratulations!

Congratulations 🎉

Congratulations.

Congratulations ❤️❤️❤️

Congratulations! 🦘

Wonderful recognition!👏👏

Fantastic! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Congratulations!

Yay! Thank you!

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Duke Lemur Center
6 days ago
Duke Lemur Center

When the lights go out, it’s party time!

This past Sunday, Binx and all his friends celebrated Binx’s first birthday, aye-aye style 🎉 The celebration featured enrichment party hats drizzled with honey for guests and a fabulous cake for Mama Fady and the birthday boy, prepared by Binx’s caretaker Jenna 🎂

A huge thank you from us and from Binx (aye-aye hands aren’t designed for writing thank you cards!) for all the birthday gifts 🥰 Even though the party is over, you’re always able to send presents to your favorite prosimian pals by visiting lemur.duke.edu/wishlist ... See MoreSee Less

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Happy Birthday Binx! You are as cute at one year as the day you were born!

Happy birthday Binx! Fun party Jenna!!

What a lovely video! So glad he had a great birthday celebration!

Happy Birthday Binx!!

Happy Birthday ❤️❤️❤️

Happy One Year old, Binx🎂🎉❤️

I find them to be so interesting and adorable ☺️

Mandy Turner

wonderful

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Duke Lemur Center
7 days ago
Duke Lemur Center

TOMORROW AT NOON! 🔊

The Duke Department of Romance Studies, in partnership with Duke Africa Initiative, is hosting Malagasy artist, author, and environmental activist Hanitrarivo Rasoanaivo as part of their online speaker series. Tune in via Zoom at 12 EST to hear her speak about art, culture, and nature conservation in Madagascar! 🌳

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TOMORROW AT NOON! 🔊 The Duke Department of Romance Studies, in partnership with Duke Africa Initiative, is hosting Malagasy artist, author, and environmental activist Hanitrarivo Rasoanaivo as part of their online speaker series. Tune in via Zoom at 12 EST to hear her speak about art, culture, and nature conservation in Madagascar! 🌳 Zoom link: https://duke.is/bhcxf
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Duke Lemur Center
2 weeks ago
Duke Lemur Center

Everyone’s favorite baby aye-aye just turned one year old! 🥳

Of course, we had to do something special for our little guy, so we’ll be throwing Binx a birthday party this Sunday (1/22)! Our education team is putting together some fun birthday enrichment for Binx and his mom Fady, as well as some of our other nocturnal friends, to celebrate this milestone. First step: sending out invitations! 💌

Want to show Binx some love on his big day? Follow the link in our bio or visit lemur.duke.edu/wishlist to send Binx a birthday gift! 🎁 Just select a tasty treat or enrichment item from our Amazon wishlist, and your present will be sent directly to the DLC 🎂 ... See MoreSee Less

PlayBinx's Birthday Bash: You're Invited! (Virtual)
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Sending the warmest 1st birthday wishes to Binx from the Island of Lemurs🥳😘🇲🇬

Happy Birthday cutie!! Have fun with all your friends and family!

Happy birthday sweet Binx!!

Happy Birthday Binx !!🥰

Happy birthday to Binx.

Happy Birthday Binx❣️🥳🎉🎂

Aww, guys. This is brilliant! ❤️

This is so cute 🥰

This is great!

That is the cutest thing ever.

Anthony Giguère Dalyane Deblois 🥰

Flavien Fasy You could maybe try this with some banana leaves stuck together and hung up?

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Duke Lemur Center
4 weeks ago
Duke Lemur Center

Our most-liked Instagram posts of 2022! 🎉 Did your favorite lemurs make the list? Let us know who you’d like to see more of in 2023!

2022 faves:

❤️ 2 aye-ayes (baby Binx, Melisandre)

❤️ 3 Coquerel’s sifakas (infant Silas, twice! and Lupi with baby Camilla, our first infant of the year)

❤️ 1 blue-eyed black lemur (Brady’s mesmerizing baby blues)

❤️ 1 pair of twin mouse lemurs, starting our #BabyWeek2022 reel (Azalea and Tiger Lily)

❤️ 1 family of 4 ring-tailed lemurs (including 4-month-old Gatsby, mom Sierra Mist, dad Licinius, and big sister Scout)

❤️ 1 fat-tailed dwarf lemur (Dunlin, ready for hibernation)

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Our most-liked Instagram posts of 2022! 🎉 Did your favorite lemurs make the list? Let us know who you’d like to see more of in 2023! 2022 faves: ❤️ 2 aye-ayes (baby Binx, Melisandre) ❤️ 3 Coquerel’s sifakas (infant Silas, twice! and Lupi with baby Camilla, our first infant of the year) ❤️ 1 blue-eyed black lemur (Brady’s mesmerizing baby blues) ❤️ 1 pair of twin mouse lemurs, starting our #BabyWeek2022 reel (Azalea and Tiger Lily) ❤️ 1 family of 4 ring-tailed lemurs (including 4-month-old Gatsby, mom Sierra Mist, dad Licinius, and big sister Scout) ❤️ 1 fat-tailed dwarf lemur (Dunlin, ready for hibernation) #top9 #dukelemurcenter #endangeredspecies
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BINX is so cute, but I’ll never forget sweet Winnie 💔. She’s in lemur heaven

I could never choose just 1... I love them all !!

I love the Sifakas and Ruffed Lemurs and..... Honestly I love them all

That photo of baby Camila and her mom is amazing! 😊 Elisabeth Joy

Lupi and Camilla

I love them all but sifakas make me weak at the knees. The sifakas in the Barack Obama National Parks documentary are freaking amazing.

All favorites! As we know I cannot pick just one 😊. They are all so cute!

Love all the beautiful Lemurs!! ❤️

Look at all those gorgeous lemurs.

Always 👏 more 👏 fat 👏 tailed 👏 dwarf 👏 lemurs 😍

😍

Brady!

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Duke Lemur Center
1 month ago
Duke Lemur Center

Happy 36th birthday, Poe! 🎉 Not only is Poe the oldest aye-aye at the DLC (and perhaps anywhere in human care), but he is now officially the oldest lemur in the DLC's colony! Not bad for a little guy from Ankorabe, Madagascar!

DLC photographer David Haring visited Poe (first photo) and mate Lucrezia (21 years old, second photo) on Wednesday just before the white lights went out and their active period began, but both were still snuggled in their nest boxes looking like they were trying to wake up from their winter slumber—perhaps waiting for keeper Danielle to bring them their morning cup of coffee... or the DLC aye-aye diet equivalent ☕

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Happy 36th birthday, Poe! 🎉 Not only is Poe the oldest aye-aye at the DLC (and perhaps anywhere in human care), but he is now officially the oldest lemur in the DLCs colony! Not bad for a little guy from Ankorabe, Madagascar! DLC photographer David Haring visited Poe (first photo) and mate Lucrezia (21 years old, second photo) on Wednesday just before the white lights went out and their active period began, but both were still snuggled in their nest boxes looking like they were trying to wake up from their winter slumber—perhaps waiting for keeper Danielle to bring them their morning cup of coffee... or the DLC aye-aye diet equivalent ☕ Big thanks to David for the great photos and caption!
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Happy birthday, Poe! 🎁🎈🥳🎂🎉. You are a special aye aye.

I must have gotten the date wrong, I thought it was 5 days ago. So Poe gets 2 Happy Birthday wishes from me. He looks great, shows the great care you all give him!

When Poe and I were much younger we spent a lot of time together. He was a participant in my dissertation and quite mischievious. I am glad he is doing well!

Happy Birthday! I visited him a couple of years when there used to be a Lemurcon event!

Happy birthday old man!!! ❤️🎁🥳

Happy Birthday 🎂🎉♥️ Poe. I was just thinking of you.

Happy Birthday, Poe! 💜💙

Happy birthday

Happy Birthday Poe❣️🎂🥳

Ryan Collins what a glorious name for a lemur

Happy birthday Poe😘

Matthew Brewer

Happy birthday Poe. You are so cute.

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Duke Lemur Center
1 month ago
Duke Lemur Center

Happy Hanukkah from the Lemur Center! 🕎

Dreidels and menorahs were drawn using baby foods and dried fruit and given to the lemurs to enjoy 🥰 Big thanks to keeper Liz for the great photos (for us) and enrichment (for the lemurs)!

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Happy Hanukkah from the Lemur Center! 🕎 Dreidels and menorahs were drawn using baby foods and dried fruit and given to the lemurs to enjoy 🥰 Big thanks to keeper Liz for the great photos (for us) and enrichment (for the lemurs)! #dukelemurcenter #happyhanukkah
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Just out of curiosity..What do all the lemurs eat during the winter season?

What a great idea! Looks like they loved it!

glad to see your lemurs can enjoy Chanukah too.

Happy lemurs! I think I recognize a few faces.

Alan Lefton - these are Lemurs that celebrate the holiday

Reva Halprin

Amy Rhode

Lauren Goldberg

🥰😘😘

Sean

Antonio Rodriguez Guzman

❤️🐒❤️ Jacob Luis Reyna

Precious!

Chag Sameach

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Duke Lemur Center
1 month ago
Duke Lemur Center

Incredible news from Betampona Reserve, including the first-ever sighting of an aye-aye there 😍 The other news is just as exciting (check out those fossas!)

The DLC is a founding and managing member of the Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group, a consortium of zoos and other institutions committed to supporting conservation in Madagascar 🇲🇬 Learn more at madagascarfaunaflora.org. ... See MoreSee Less

Incredible news from Betampona Reserve, including the first-ever sighting of an aye-aye there 😍 The other news is just as exciting (check out those fossas!) The DLC is a founding and managing member of the Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group, a consortium of zoos and other institutions committed to supporting conservation in Madagascar 🇲🇬 Learn more at madagascarfaunaflora.org.
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Amazing!!!!

Love it. ❤️❤️❤️