June 5, 2014 – Duke students Faye Goodwin and Kyle Smith just wrapped up their third week in Madagascar as part of a two-month service learning project funded by Duke Engage. Read Faye’s ongoing accounts of their adventures in the following post: Week 2: The adventure continues! It’s been a wonderful week in Andapa, with […]
May 30, 2014 — In 1999 at the Duke Lemur Center, a young lemur named Eugenius started to get sick. Very sick. He was lethargic, losing weight and suffering from diarrhea. Veterinarians soon pinpointed the cause of his illness: Eugenius tested positive for Cryptosporidium, a microscopic intestinal parasite known to affect people, pets, livestock and […]
Bring a blanket and join us for a picnic to meet the lemurs in the adopt-a-lemur program at the Duke Lemur Center, from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, June 6. Your sponsorship will help us care for the lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center and support the conservation work we do around the world. […]
May 22, 2014 – Duke students Faye Goodwin and Kyle Smith, both rising juniors, will spend the next two months studying bamboo lemurs in Madagascar as part of a service learning project funded by Duke Engage. Read Faye’s first accounts of their adventures in the following posts: Week 0 May 16, Departure Day: I’m […]
May 8, 2014 — Just in time for Mother’s Day, visitors to the Duke Lemur Center can see the new baby lemurs and their moms, many of whom are now making their first public appearances. Infants at the Duke Lemur Center are given an opportunity to bond behind the scenes before going on public display. […]
April 29, 2014 — With finals fast approaching, we wanted to thank the dozens of undergraduates at Duke and elsewhere who contributed their smarts to the Duke Lemur Center this semester. Biology and anthropology students weren’t the only ones to join us. In today’s post, designer and multimedia specialist Michael Faber describes a lemur-inspired assignment […]
April 25, 2014 — For the next few months, visitors will have a unique opportunity to get up close with some of the 80 lemurs and seven species that are now frolicking in the forest. In today’s post, we asked Lemur Center volunteer and Duke undergraduate Faye Goodwin what to expect during the spring tour […]
April 14, 2014 — On the evening of March 15, 2014, in the rainforests of eastern Madagascar, a veterinary team from the Duke Lemur Center made an unusual house call. Their patient was a female aye-aye — a rare and otherworldly primate with rodent-like teeth, wiry fur, big ears, bulging yellowish-orange eyes and a bushy […]