Posted August 13, 2025. This year, the Duke Lemur Center—like many university-affiliated institutions—is navigating unprecedented financial challenges due to sweeping changes in federal funding. These shifts have created significant gaps in our budget, threatening the momentum we’ve built in lemur care, groundbreaking research, and global conservation. General fund gifts are our top priority right now. […]
By James Herrera, Ph.D. and DLC staff. Posted July 20, 2025. This week, the 30th International Primatological Society (IPS) Congress is proudly being hosted by Madagascar, for the first time since 1998! The IPS is dedicated to the study, conservation, and welfare of primates in the wild and within human care. Its biannual Congress is […]
When it comes to naming opportunities in connection with a generous gift, could anything be better than naming a lemur? The Lemur Center’s new Ultimate Adoption Package was designed as a limited-time opportunity for our supporters to do something extra special: to name one of our lemur infants by making a new gift of $20,000 […]
Meet Aurelius! This critically endangered Coquerel’s sifaka, born on March 9, 2025, is 17-year-old Rodelinda’s eighth offspring and joins dad Johann, older sister Egeria, and older brother Albus in this family of five. Aurelius is incredibly photogenic and very laid back, content to cling tight to mom or other family members. As an experienced mother, […]