February 12, 2015– Rosewood logging begins again in Madagascar. Following the political coup in Madagascar in 2009, timber barons sent loggers into Madagascar’s protected forests to harvest precious woods, like ebony and rosewood. Thousands of trees were cut to be sold illegally on international markets by poor Malagasy making very little money for their dangerous, illegal […]
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December 30, 2014 — 2014, the biggest year ever! Two-thousand-fourteen was definitely the Year of the Lemur, and the Duke Lemur Center was in the middle of it all. We launched a new website at the beginning of the year, just in time for IMAX’s Island of Lemurs: Madagascar. We released nearly 50 years of […]
The passing of Jovian, the lemur from the popular kids’ show Zoboomafoo, touched millions of people as the news spread. In the wake of Jovian’s death, DLC research intern Emma Wellbaum wrote about the loss of this special lemur and the overall challenge of protecting lemurs in Madagascar. December 18, 2014 — On November […]
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Hibernation Isn’t Just For Bears. Hibernation is a common metabolic strategy found in all major groups of mammals, however, it is rare among primates. Dr. Marina Blanco will discuss how and why Fat-tailed Dwarf lemurs hibernate. Dr. Blanco has just returned from Madagascar and will discuss her research and the traits of these fascinating primates. […]
November, 11, 2014, Durham, NC — A quiet sadness spread over the Duke Lemur Center staff on Monday as news spread that Jovian, a much-loved Coquerel’s sifaka had died of kidney failure at the age of 20.5 years. Within the Lemur Center, Jovian was known as an exceptionally capable and caring father, having sired […]
October 22, 2014 6:30pm DLC Lead Technician, Julie McKinney An Unusual House Call – Saving Aye-ayes in Madagascar On the evening of March 15, 2014, in the rainforests of Madagascar, a veterinary team from the Duke Lemur Center made an unusual house call. Their patient was a female aye-aye . She was one of five […]