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 […]
March 28, 2014 — Earlier this week we went behind the scenes with IMAX to learn how the Duke Lemur Center’s animal training experts prepared five of our fat-tailed dwarf lemurs for their role in the upcoming IMAX film, Island of Lemurs: Madagascar. But animal training isn’t just for the movies. It’s critical for research […]
March 18, 2014 – One of the first things visitors notice when they come to the Duke Lemur Center is that lemurs are LOUD. You might say stinky too. Of course we love them anyway. But what do our guests think? In today’s post, we asked Lemur Center volunteer and Duke undergraduate Faye Goodwin how […]
February 20, 2014 – It’s baby season at the Duke Lemur Center. In today’s post, Lemur Center technician Allie Blackwood explains how the new babies get their names: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Ahh, Shakespeare. Clearly he never worked at the Lemur […]
February 18, 2014 – It’s birth season at the Duke Lemur Center! Two female Sifaka lemurs, Gertrude and Eleanor, were born on January 5, and more babies are expected in the coming months. In the dead of winter we are lucky to welcome new life to the center. Here’s what we do to get ready […]