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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 13 species, the DLC houses the world’s 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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Happy Thanksgiving from all of your favorite primates at the Duke Lemur Center! 💙
We're beyond thankful for our wonderful worldwide community of lemur lovers and for all of the incredible primates who call the DLC home. We hope you have a fantastic holiday 🍁🌎
Let us know in the comments which photo of ring-tailed lemurs Randy, Sophia, Nemesis, and Nyx best fits your Thanksgiving mood, and tag your loved ones to let them know you're thinking about them 🤗
📸: Sara Nicholson ... See MoreSee Less
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Happy Thanksgiving! I am thankful for all you do throughout the world to keep all these wonderful species alive!
Happy Thanksgiving to all the beautiful inhabitants at the DLC and to all the beautiful humans that care for them🧡Love all the photos but that last one fits my current mood. They look so cozy and thankful being together!
Thank you Thank you Thank you for all you do for the lovely lemurs!
This year and every year, we're thankful for the incredible support of our community of lemur lovers, and YOU can join our worldwide network of donors in supporting the care and conservation of your favorite primates! 🥰
➡️ www.gifts.duke.edu/lemur?technique_code=LMR1FB
Did you know that the Duke Lemur Center is a nonprofit organization and that donations are vital to our work? While we operate under Duke University, we raise nearly half of our annual budget from donations, grants, and revenues from fees, tours, and merchandise sales. If you already support us, THANK YOU! If not, please consider including us in your philanthropic giving plans! Make a donation now or check out the important ways that you can invest in our work on the SUPPORT US page of our website 💙
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Looking for an easy way to support us on this upcoming #GivingTuesday? Make the most out of this weekend's deals and discounts to donate items from our Amazon wishlist! You can learn how each item benefits lemur care, conservation, non-invasive research, and education while scrolling through our wishlist to find the perfect donation within your giving budget 🤗
Thanks for giving!
📸: Sara Nicholson ... See MoreSee Less
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They are absolutely gorgeous.
Looking to unlock your inner paleontologist? Dive into fossils with our newest Wild Workshop, Night at the Museum! 💀
➡️ lemur.duke.edu/fossil-tours
Did you know that the DLC Museum of Natural History is home to one of only two fossil prep labs in the entire state of North Carolina? On our brand new Night at the Museum Wild Workshop, you’ll learn tips and tricks of the fossil trade from DLC Museum Curator Dr. Matt Borths and Fossil Preparator Karie Whitman. You’ll feel like a kid at your favorite summer camp—pouring over drawers of unique fossils from around the world, helping Matt look for microscopic fossils in Peruvian soil, trying your hand at extracting fossils from rock with Karie’s specialized tools, and searching for shark teeth to take home to start your very own fossil collection! 😱
Registration is currently open! Learn more and book your tickets now on our website 🎟
NOTE: This is an in-person program hosted at the DLC Museum of Natural History, located at 1013 Broad Street, Durham, NC. Please note that this program focuses on our fossils and will NOT include a visit to the lemurs on the Duke Lemur Center’s main campus. ... See MoreSee Less
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Very cool.
Did you know that Times Higher Education Rankings recently listed Duke at #5 in the world for interdisciplinary science? And we were mentioned! Read more on Duke Today 💙
today.duke.edu/2024/11/duke-receives-global-recognition-interdisciplinary-science
📸: Sara Nicholson ... See MoreSee Less
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In my time there, people studying linguistics, paleontology, anthropology, biomechanics, nutrition, visual systems, auditory syestems, social behavior, genetics, and on and on, were welcome.
Not sure. I love the lemurs.
Nice
Happy #MadagascarMonday! Enjoy this quick update on our work with the New Generation School Garden 🌱
Over the past couple of months, six schools enjoyed week-long summer camp visits at the New Generation School Garden. Over 130 students and teachers participated in 4-day camp-outs, learning about the environment, biodiversity, and sustainable agriculture. We also announced the Green School Initiative, a competition among the six schools to become the “Greenest” by the end of the year 💚
To learn more about our conservation projects, visit lemur.duke.edu/conservation or keep an eye out for the next #MadagascarMonday update ✨ ... See MoreSee Less
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We hope you're having a sweet Sunday 😋
Our aye-ayes love to snack on sweet fruit, like bananas and oranges. In the wild, outside of their highly specialized diet—which consists of insects, nuts, and seeds— aye-ayes also enjoy fresh coconuts, lychees, and mangos. Whether they're consuming bugs or fruit, aye-ayes will use their long, thin middle fingers to hook and scoop food into their mouths 🍊
📸: David Haring ... See MoreSee Less
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I love aye ayes. They are so unique and cute. 🥰
Happy snacking
🤩 THIS SUNDAY 🤩
Good news: we have the weather and staffing to run an off-season General Tour this Sunday 11/24! Like our summer General Tours, this tour is an open house format, and guests can arrive any time before 11:30am to walk around and see the lemurs. Because the lemurs' housing needs may mildly affect their visibility to guests, we are offering a discounted off-season rate of $15 per person for ages 13+ and $12 per person for ages 3-12 (children 2 and under are free) 🥳
Tickets MUST be purchased in advance to attend! Tickets and information are available on our website at lemur.duke.edu/GT 🎟
📸: David Haring ... See MoreSee Less
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He may be almost three years old, but Coquerel's sifaka Silas is still just as adorable as when he was a baby 😜
Silas and his family enjoyed some fresh sweetgum leaves last week, courtesy of volunteer photographer David Haring. This sweet boy is a staff favorite, as are parents Rupert (photo 3) and Gisela (photo 4), and is the grandson of Jovian aka Zoboomafoo. Do you think he looks more like mom or dad? 🤔
Of course, since it's #ThrowbackThursday, we couldn't miss the opportunity to add a precious #tbt photo of Silas at the end 💙
📸: David Haring ... See MoreSee Less
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Silas is a charmer !! I think he knows how cute he is!!
Silas is cute as can be
Just beautiful
Happy Wednesday from mongoose lemur Rico 🧡
You can tell that this handsome seven-year-old is a male thanks to his orange beard—female mongoose lemurs have a white beard. Rico has participated in a wide variety of tours with guests over the past few years. In 2022, visitors saw Rico and his breeding partner, Carolina, free-ranging in one of our forest enclosures on Walking with Lemurs tours. In 2023, Rico and Carolina spent the summer on our General Tour path. This year, the mongoose lemur pair participate in our Wild Workshops, interacting eagerly with guest-made enrichment 😋
Some of our residents are a little more shy around visitors, so we take that into account with our housing arrangements to keep our introverted lemurs in more private areas. Luckily, Rico is both handsome AND outgoing, making him popular with guests and staff members alike 🤗
Interested in visiting our facility? Make sure you book tickets beforehand—a tour is required to see the lemurs. Most of our tours are available May-September, but we have a few off-season offerings, like our Behind the Scenes tours and Wild Workshops. Schedule your visit through our website at lemur.duke.edu/onsite-tours ✨
📸: Sara Nicholson ... See MoreSee Less
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Rico is handsome.🤎
Handsome guy!
Rico is handsome
No one misses the summer sunshine more than black-and-white ruffed lemur Sunshine ☀️
Four-year-old Sunshine spent this past summer free-ranging in one of our forest enclosures with mom Halley, stepdad Bruno, and siblings Orbit, Sputnik, Kepler, and Spitzer. With such a big family, tail shaves were crucial in helping tell the lemurs apart! These shaves are harmless haircuts, like you see on Sunshine in the first photo. One or two shaves in different locations on the tail (tip, mid, or base) allow us to identify individuals, even when they climb to the tippy tops of the tallest trees 🌲
You can stay up-to-date on Sunshine and her family by symbolically adopting her mom, Halley! Learn more at lemur.duke.edu/adopt ✨
📸: Sara Nicholson (1-4); Aditya Baliga (5) ... See MoreSee Less
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They are so beautiful
Awww. They are beautiful.