Written by Keriann McGoogan, Ph.D. It was 2009 and the peak of the dry season in Ankarafantsika National Park, northwest Madagascar. That meant that it was hot. Like, crazy hot. I fanned myself with my data book as I stood in the middle of the forest. My job as a primatologist was to find and […]
Thank you! Thank you for being a part of the Duke Lemur Center’s Stay Away 5k this weekend! In April 2020, when the DLC decided to organize this event, we were excited about its potential to bring people from across the country and around the world together to do something fun and help lemurs. We […]
Media Inquiries: Please email sara.clark@duke.edu for access to images and video. Please join us in welcoming Brady, a critically endangered blue-eyed black lemur, to the Duke Lemur Center family! Named after fellow dark-haired, blue-eyed stunner Tom Brady – quarterback for the New England Patriots and now the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Brady was born on […]
The Barbara Colyear Parkening Lemur Care Fund by Mary Paisley, Development Officer With so many challenges in our world these days due to COVID-19, it’s been truly uplifting to spend time writing this article honoring a wonderful friend of the Duke Lemur Center who recently made an incredible gift to us. With the donor’s permission, […]
By Drs. Marina Blanco and Lydia Greene A paper on environmental education in the SAVA (northeastern) region of Madagascar, authored by DLC conservation and research staff, has been published in PLoS ONE! The paper highlights the importance of working with primary school students directly, and of designing ways to track and monitor knowledge/perceptions across students […]
Dear Friends, I hope this letter finds you and your families safe and healthy. I am writing to let you know that all of the Duke Lemur Center’s (DLC) animals and staff remain healthy as we enter our seventh week of modified operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are so fortunate to have such […]