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, […]
