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Jujube Trees? Yes, Please! Expansion of the DLC’s “Food Forest”
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Jujube Trees? Yes, Please! Expansion of the DLC’s “Food Forest”

By Mary Paisley, Development Director. Published March 21, 2025. In our quest to acquire special fruit-bearing trees, our friendships grew, organically When Charlie Welch wrote this article about the importance of the Lemur Center’s organic food forest and our dedicated garden volunteers, he also sparked a new challenge by sharing his wish to add four […]



Hibernating Lemurs Can Turn Back the Clock on Cellular Aging

Originally published on Phys.org on March 11, 2025. Read the original here. We’re all familiar with the outward signs of aging. The face that greets you in the mirror each morning may have sagging skin or thinning hair. But many age-related changes start within our cells, even our DNA, which can wear and tear over […]



Creating a “Food Forest” for Lemurs

By Charlie Welch, DLC Conservation Coordinator. Published on February 21, 2025. An onsite, organic “food forest” For over a decade, thanks to a team of garden volunteers, we at Duke Lemur Center (in Durham, North Carolina USA) have been growing vegetables and other edible plants of all sorts for our lemurs. We can’t come close […]



Meet Duke’s Fossil Finders

By Stephen Schramm, Working@Duke Senior Writer. Originally published in Duke Today on February 19, 2025. Read the original and see the accompanying photos here.  Monthly open houses at the Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History offer glimpses of work behind evolutionary discoveries As the Madre de Dios River flows through Peru toward the Amazon, […]