By Matt Borths, Curator of the Duke Lemur Center’s Division of Fossil Primates. This week we joined Dr. Doug Boyer from Duke’s Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, where we CT-scanned a block that contains a 50-million-year-old lemur-like primate from Wyoming, USA. Part of the skull is visible and even […]
By Karl Bates. Originally published November 2007: https://today.duke.edu/2007/11/lemurs.html. Sarph lives. He’s nearly 15 years old, and he knows where the predators lurk, where to find food, and how to make a baby with his wild-born mate. Seven-year-old brothers Tany and Masoandro are there too, in the steep and steamy rainforest of the Betampona Reserve in northeastern […]
By Jonathan Black. Originally published in Duke Today on January 14, 2019. View the original HERE. Name: David Haring Title: Registrar/Photographer at Duke Lemur Center Years at Duke: 38 What he does: When Haring isn’t stationed in front of a computer working on animal records, he’s outdoors, capturing the lives of 220 lemurs at Duke Lemur Center in pictures. Haring takes […]
Attention serious lemur lovers and science enthusiasts: we have an amazing new educational series for you! Starting in 2019, we will be offering Wild Workshops throughout the year! Each Wild Workshop will focus on a different subject connected to the work the DLC does here and in Madagascar. We’ll do a deep-dive into subjects like […]
By Matt Borths, Curator of the Duke Lemur Center’s Division of Fossil Primates. Happy first #FossilFriday of 2019! Meet Paradracaena, a large lizard with snail-crushing teeth that lived alongside the earliest South American monkeys. The specimen was collected by Dr. Rich Kay (Duke University) and his excavation teams in Colombia. It was recently scanned so it is cataloged […]
The Duke Lemur Center is home to 32 critically endangered Coquerel’s sifakas, folivorous primates with extremely specialized dietary needs. Because of their sensitive digestive systems, these delicate lemurs need to ingest leaves daily in order to survive and stay healthy. At the Duke Lemur Center, our animal care team harvests fresh redbud, tulip poplar, mimosa, […]
FROM THE ARCHIVES: DLC in the media from ’04 to ’15! Lemurs chat only with their best friends Dec. 28, 2015 Science News Up close with lemur gut bugs Oct. 29, 2015 American Scientist The aye-aye and the finger of death Oct. 29, 2015 Pacific Standard Duke Lemur Center educates and entertains June 23, 2015 […]
Lemurs are intelligent, and because they’re intelligent, they can get bored. So, 365 days of the year, the DLC’s dedicated Primate Technicians help ensure that our lemurs’ lives are interesting! One of those technicians is Kate Byrnes, a four-year veteran of the DLC who works closely with Curator of Behavioral Management Meg Dye to provide novel […]
