Happy International Women’s Day! By James Herrera, Ph.D., DLC-SAVA Conservation Coordinator. Published on March 8, 2025. On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to highlight the amazing women in Madagascar who work tirelessly to ensure food security for their families. DLC-SAVA Conservation is honored to work with networks of women farmers who are doing amazing […]
The Newest Addition to Our 2025 Baby Season On December 19, 2024, ten-year-old Coquerel’s sifaka Lupicina gave birth to a healthy male infant. Majorian was born at 102 grams, a very standard weight for a sifaka infant. Majorian is the third offspring of Lupicina and breeding partner Gabe. Majorian shares his name with a Western […]
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 […]
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, […]
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN. Originally published on CNN Science on January 17, 2025. Read the original here. Learn more about the DLC’s collaborations with Egyptian paleontologists, including the study’s lead author Shorouq Al-Ashqar, on pages 44-47 of LEMURS Magazine: The “Where” Issue. An apex carnivore was ‘king of the ancient Egyptian forest’ then mysteriously went […]
Written and Illustrated by Talia Felgenhauer, 2023-24 Undergraduate Fellow in Communications. Originally published in LEMURS Magazine: The “Why” Issue in February 2024. Madagascar is an island like no other. Located hundreds of miles off the southeastern coast of Africa, Madagascar has been isolated for more than 80 million years, changing and evolving independently from the […]
By Andrew Rossi. Originally published in Cowboy State Daily on December 1, 2024. Scientists from the Duke Lemur Center at Duke University come out to Wyoming every summer to find fossils from the earliest ancestors of modern-day lemurs and primates. They say the Bridger Basin is the Madagascar of the Eocene Period. There are plenty […]
There are at least seven species of bamboo in the SAVA (northeastern) region of Madagascar, some native and some introduced. Some lemurs are bamboo-eating specialists! People in Madagascar use bamboo for diverse purposes, even building their houses from it. Some bamboo are so dense, they make excellent substitutes for wood—and because they can grow […]
