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NEW RESEARCH: a 30-million-year-old skull reveals a previously unknown species of apex carnivore 🔍
➡️ lemur.duke.edu/bastetodon
Dr. Shorouq Al-Ashqar, along with DLC Museum of Natural History Curator Dr. Matt Borths and a team of international collaborators, published a study earlier this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology detailing the discovery of a nearly complete skull of a previously unidentified species of ancient carnivore. The researchers named the leopard-size species 'Bastetodon syrtos' as a nod to the cat-headed ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet. This 30-million-year-old fossil provides a rare glimpse into a time of global environmental changes and faunal turnover, when some species go extinct while new ones are introduced due to varying changes in the habitat. Read the full story on our website to celebrate #FossilFriday! 🤩
📸: Hesham Sallam
Get curious this Saturday at our monthly DLC Museum of Natural History open house! 🔍
Join us at this weekend's FREE open house from 1-4pm on Saturday at the DLCMNH at 1013 Broad Street! Chat with our fossil experts and explore the origins of modern primates, from 55 million year-old, lemur-like primate fossils from Wyoming to 10,000 to 500 year-old lemur fossils from Madagascar and everything in between. No reservations required! Learn more at lemur.duke.edu/fossil ✨
📸: Abby Flyer
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Awesome
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Snow day ASMR with geriatric aye-ayes Poe and Medusa 🌨️
While the lemurs remain cozy and warm indoors, snow can be a great source of enrichment! Keeper Lizzie, one of our aye-aye caretakers, brought bowls of fresh snow to the DLC’s aye-ayes, and 38-year-old Poe and 21-year-old Medusa engaged the most enthusiastically with this ice cold enrichment. Both Poe and Medusa inspect the snow with their tapping fingers before utilizing those rodent-style incisors to nibble on the ice 😁
We hope you’re all staying warm while the North Carolina snow continues to fall! ❄️
🎥: Lizzie L.
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How cute, didn't know they liked Snow 🌨️
🫠🥰 Oh Keeper Lizzie! This is so precious! I love that cute bundle of furry love. Thank you for sharing it with all of us. I could watch this over and over and over and over again .. Oh wait - (snickering) .. I did watch it that many and more times 💖
Glad you're enjoying!
We hope everyone is staying warm and safe with the snow coming through North Carolina! ❄️
The DLC will be CLOSED to the public today due to the weather. Don't worry about the lemurs—they will all be enjoying the snow day from their cozy indoor enclosures 🥰
📸: David Haring
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Such beautiful little babies!!
You cuties are super cozy! 🩷❤️🩷❤️
Stay warm and cosy little Lemurs <3
Bamboo feeder ASMR with three-year-old Binx, our youngest aye-aye 🎋
Keeper Lizzie made these lovely bamboo snacks for all of our aye-ayes by freezing diluted apple juice and peanut butter powder inside pieces of long leaf bamboo and adding a drizzle of honey before snack time. As Binx demonstrates, the enrichment was a huge hit! Binx does a great job of showing off some key aye-aye adaptations: the tapping finger to locate food and scoop it out, the rodent-style incisors that allow them to tear quickly through tough material like bamboo, and the power grip on their back feet that allows them to hang upside down 🙃
➡️ lemur.duke.edu/wishlist
Want to help our dedicated keepers make fun snacks for the lemurs? You can send food and other enrichment supplies directly to the DLC through our Amazon wishlist! ✨
🎥: Abby Flyer
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Lucky Binx to have such a yummy treat!
We all love snacks 😋😋, love Aye Aye
That tail is extraordinary🥰
There's no better cure for a case of the Mondays than some cute photos of old man Gratian 🤩
Gratian is currently the oldest Coquerel's sifaka living at the Duke Lemur Center. This 22-year-old male has been a huge contributor to the Coquerel's sifaka Species Survival Plan (SSP), with eleven offspring, eleven grandlemurs, and four great-grandlemurs, helping establish a genetic safety net for this critically endangered species in human care. His youngest daughter, Pax (pictured with dad in the first photo), just turned one year old last month! You may have met Gratian, Pax, and current breeding partner Magdalena on one of our Wild Workshops 💕
📸: David Haring
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Are they related to Zomboomafu?
Thank you, Duke Lemur Center and photographer David Haring -- your posts make my week so much easier ... nothing makes a person smile more than the antics of these cute, and crazy critters --- well, they are right up there with pandas. 💗🥰🐼
Ruth Collier Erin Dombroskie
Our Valentine’s Day fundraiser has ended, and we’re excited to share that it raised over $7,000 from 240 gifts! THANK YOU to everyone who participated! ❤️
It’s not too late to include lemurs in your Valentine plans: You can still make a donation in someone’s honor, or symbolically adopt a lemur for yourself or someone you love! Visit lemur.duke.edu/donate and lemur.duke.edu/adopt to learn more ❤️
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Love my video!
So cute.
Katherine Kelley - look what you did! 🧡
Happy Valentine's Day from your favorite primates 💖
Whether you spend today with a romantic partner, your best gal pals, your chosen family, or indulging in some solo TLC, we hope your day is filled with love (and lemurs) 🥰
And if you're still looking for a special treat for your special someone, donations for our Love and Lemurs Video Valentine are open until 11am ET at lemur.duke.edu/valentine 💕
📸: David Haring (1,2,4); Sarah M. (3); Sara Nicholson (5)
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Happy ❤️ Day to all your wonderful lemurs and the team who keep them so healthy and happy!
Happy Valentine’s Day to all the amazing and wonderful beings at the DLC!! I can’t wait to watch the video!🩷💘🩷💘🩷💘
Happy Valentine's Day to all of these sweet lemurs and to all the hard-working staff at DLC. 🥰
Run, don’t walk, to order our Love and Lemurs Video Valentine! 😍
➡️ lemur.duke.edu/valentine
Here’s a small snippet of some of the high-quality lemur footage you and your loved one will get to enjoy, along with a collection of printable Valentine’s cards, when you donate $25 or more to the care and conservation of these incredible endangered primates for our Valentine’s Day fundraiser. It’s an easy way to brighten someone’s day while also contributing to a good cause 💖
Ordering is open until 11am ET tomorrow, so it’s the perfect last-minute Valentine’s Day gift!
🎥: Text und Bild Medienproduktion
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So cute
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Happy Galentine's Day! 💖
Lemurs are female dominant, meaning the ladies call the shots and sit at the top of the social hierarchy. While this can lead to competition for dominance between females within a group, it can also result in tight-knit relationships between related females. Whether your Galentine is a sister, mother, daughter, friend, cousin, partner, or any other important gal in your life, tag them in the comments to let them know you're thinking of them today (and to show them adorable lemur photos!) 🥰
➡️ lemur.duke.edu/valentine
Want to get your Galentine something extra cute? Donate $25 or more to lemur care and conservation to receive a link to our Love and Lemurs Video Valentine first thing tomorrow morning, which you'll be able to forward to your loved ones 💕
📸: Sara Nicholson (1-3, 5); David Haring (4)
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There are always rules in the troops.
LOVE all of these strong, beautiful women🩷❤️🩷❤️🩷❤️Happy Galentine’s Day, ladies!
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