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Gray mouse lemur Taro investigates some fall foliage 🍂
Lemurs are curious animals who love to explore new surroundings and check out new items! A big part of animal welfare here at the DLC is providing each and every lemur with engaging daily enrichment. This can range from sensory enrichment (like new scents or sound machines) to structural enrichment (like new branches and swings) to foraging enrichment (like puzzle feeders or novel snacks). It's especially fun to give the lemurs seasonal or holiday themed enrichment, and fallen leaves are an easy way to excite a tiny mouse lemur! 🍁
📸: David Haring
Coquerel's sifaka Remus snacks on a tasty cucumber 🥒
Did you know that a cucumber from an American grocery store has about the same sugar content as the fruits sifakas eat in their natural habitats? While a cucumber doesn't seem like a super sugary snack to us, it's quite the satisfying treat for Remus! 😋
📸: David Haring
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Foraging ASMR with Coquerel’s sifakas Magdalena and Pax 🌿
What’s a leaf-eating primate to do when most of the leaves have fallen off the trees? Eight-year-old Magdalena chooses to forage for ground plants amidst the crunchy fallen leaves, devouring lespedeza with enviable efficiency. One-year-old Pax, on the other hand, would rather hang from a precariously thin branch to strip any remaining buds from the mostly bare tree and chew on some of the softer twigs. What a picture perfect mother-daughter picnic! 🍂
🎥: Abby Flyer
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So cute
Thank you so much to our friends and lemur lovers around the world who, despite all of 2025's challenges, have helped us maintain the excellent care of our colony and commitment to our mission 🌍
➡️ lemur.duke.edu/impact2025
Check out our website to read all about our accomplishments in 2025, including:
🍼 15 lemur births, including the only blue-eyed black lemur born in human care anywhere in the world
🖥️ Becoming the first zoological institution to make detailed datasets publicly available through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
🤗 DLC volunteers helping to raise $60k for lemur care through their promotion and support of our new Ultimate Adoption program
✨ Over 21,000 visitors on educational tours and programs
🍎 Expanding our organic food forest to provide high quality produce to our lemurs
🌱 More than 2,500 Malagasy farmers engaged in sustainable agriculture to protect forests where lemurs thrive
🦴 Newly published research involving specimens from the DLC's extensive fossil collection
🔍 96% of our resident lemurs participating in non-invasive research
🏥 Hosting Dr. Jonia Rasolofoniaina through our Malagasy Veterinary Internship Program
There's still time to make a year-end gift to support lemur care and conservation! In a year rife with financial hurdles and federal funding cuts, it's the support of our community that allows us to continue working to save these incredible endangered primates. Learn more about the impact your gift could have at lemur.duke.edu/donate 💙
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Learn all about paleontology with DLC Museum of Natural History Curator Matt Borths! 🔍
➡️ lemur.duke.edu/paleontology-ebtsoyp
Next Monday (11/24) from 1:00-1:45pm ET, Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants will be hosting a livestream with Matt. Matt is a paleontologist who studies the evolution of animals in Africa, particularly the evolution of carnivorous mammals – including some of the oldest meat-eaters to chase down our primate ancestors! As the Curator of the Lemur Center’s Division of Fossil Primates (DFP), he oversees the DFP’s 30,000+ specimens – among them the world’s largest and most important collection of early primates. The DFP’s skeletal specimens of extinct giant lemurs from Madagascar are also unmatched anywhere else in the world 😱
Join us as we explore this irreplaceable fossil collection! 🦴
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Dalton Berry
The only thing prettier than an autumn afternoon in the forest? An autumn afternoon in the forest with ring-tailed lemurs! 🍂
Ring-tailed lemurs Sprite, Lulu, and Seagrams love to lounge in the woods on warm fall days. 24-year-old Sprite is the troop's matriarch, and she lives with 11-year-old daughter Lulu and their unrelated male companion, 10-year-old Seagrams. Hailing from Madagascar's southern spiny deserts, ring-tailed lemurs are the most terrestrial lemur species, spending over 50% of their time down on the ground. You can often find these three snacking on crunchy fallen leaves—sort of like lemur potato chips! 🍁
📸: Sara Nicholson
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Clay Staley
You asked, we answered... lots of new merch now available on our online store! 💕
➡️ lemur.duke.edu/shop
Whether you're getting a head start on holiday shopping or just looking to add to your existing wardrobe, we've got plenty of options! Check out these new items, as well as restocks of some sold-out favorites. All purchases "give back" to the Duke Lemur Center, helping pay for lemur care, housing, veterinary supplies, education programs, and conservation initiatives, so you can feel good about the products you buy—or gift to someone you love 🥰
And yes, international shipping is available 😉
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Duke Lemur Center do you have a sizing chart for the tshirts?
Ring-tailed lemur Fritz is thankful for the last few green leaves in the forest 🌿
This handsome ring-tailed lemur is currently 23 years old and was born at St. Catherine's Island in Georgia. He transferred to the DLC back in 2005 and quickly became a favorite amongst staff members, thanks to his easygoing personality and slow, meandering gait. Fritz has been a superstar in the DLC's non-invasive research program over the years, voluntarily participating in studies examining everything from hormone production to auditory sensitivity to the impact of a good night's sleep—even an eye-tracking study back in 2008, where he calmly allowed researchers to outfit him in a special hat and vest to attach the camera equipment! 🤩
📸: Sara Nicholson
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Is there a book that identifies all the lemurs of Madagascar ?
Handsome and a trail blazer!🩷🩷🩷🩷
Brooke Guimond
Meet Raven the Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur! 💙
➡️ lemur.duke.edu/adopt
13-year-old Raven is gearing up for her annual hibernation! Raven is a very sweet dwarf lemur who loves to snack on fruits and flowers and can often be found cuddled up in a soft nest spot. After many years breeding with mate Domestic Chicken, Raven now enjoys the relative peace and quiet in the "condo" where she lives with her youngest son, Brahma Chicken. For the winter, Raven will be moving into our special temperature-controlled hibernaculum, helping our research scientists learn more about the incredible feats of nature that these tiny primates accomplish and potentially unlocking the key to interstellar travel 🚀
Want to keep up-to-date with Raven while supporting the care and conservation of the world's most endangered mammals? You can symbolically adopt Raven (and take home your own plush version of this adorable dwarf lemur!) in person at our Lemur Landing Gift Shop or online at lemur.duke.edu/shop ✨
📸: David Haring (1,3,4); Abby Flyer (2)
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Meet Halley the Black and White Ruffed Lemur! 💙
➡️ lemur.duke.edu/adopt
12-year-old Halley lives up to her namesake, the famous comet! She blazes her way through life as a busy mom, balancing a research schedule, infant rearing, and her relationship with her mate, 9-year-old Bruno. Halley has helped contribute to the Species Survival Plan (SSP) of this critically endangered species through four separate litters—nine total offspring! You're most likely to find Halley on the forest floor, snacking on fallen muscadine grapes while Bruno leaps from tree to tree with their two-year-old twins 🍇
Want to keep up-to-date with Halley while supporting the care and conservation of the world's most endangered mammals? You can symbolically adopt Halley (and take home your own plush version of this beautiful ruffed lemur!) in person at our Lemur Landing Gift Shop or online at lemur.duke.edu/shop ✨
📸: Sara Nicholson (1,3,4); Abby Flyer (2)
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Wow How adorable!
We are very happy to meet you, Halley. We truly appreciate your effort to preserve this unique species. ✨
I bought a soft toy one from Adelaide Zoo, South Australia, I was so entranced by them!
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Anna Wright he’s investigating
Taro is very cute.
Hi Taro! I remember you!