Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Coconut Palm is the first Mohol bushbaby (Galago moholi) born at the Duke Lemur Center in more than five years! Bushbabies are the only non-lemur primate species currently housed at the DLC, so learning how to best care for Mohol bush babies has been a fun project for our experienced staff. Having a full year’s experience with the four adult bush babies that call the DLC […]
Our first infant of Baby Week 2021 is Clancy, a critically endangered mongoose lemur! Clancy was born on April 18th, 2021, to parents Maddie and Duggan. While other mongoose lemurs born at the DLC have been given Spanish names, Clancy’s name is Scottish in origin, to match his father’s. Clancy means “red-haired warrior”,—a fitting title […]
James Herrera, Program Coordinator, DLC-SAVA Conservation Education is crucial for the growth and development of individuals, communities, and societies. Education is not restricted to children in the classroom. In conservation, education is a pillar necessary for sustainable development and increasing awareness and compassion for nature. Baba Dioum, the famous Senegalese conservationist, once said, “We will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we […]
Thank you! Thank you for being a part of the Duke Lemur Center’s Stay Away 5k this weekend! As many of you know, the Lemur Center temporarily closed its doors in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis. Since that time our animal care, veterinary, and curatorial teams have been working tirelessly to maintain our […]
James Herrera, DLC-SAVA Program Coordinator Forests provide countless benefits for wildlife and people, in terms of sequestering carbon, providing food and homes for plants, animals and people, filtering water and supporting healthy soils, to name a few. Despite the importance of natural habitats, especially forests, they have been degraded and destroyed by human activities. That […]
The urban jungle James Herrera, Program Coordinator, DLC SAVA Conservation Lemurs are not only threatened in the remote rural countryside discussed in Part I of our Earth Day conservation blog. People in urban areas also capture or buy lemurs, sometimes for their own consumption or to keep as pets, or to sell to others as […]
Lemurs in remote jungles James Herrera, Program Coordinator, DLC SAVA Conservation Lemurs are primates found only on Madagascar. They likely arrived from ancestors on Africa 60 million years ago, and in that time, over 100 species evolved. They can be found in almost all the natural environments of Madagascar: eastern rainforests, western dry forests, high […]
