By Robin A. Smith. Originally published in DukeTODAY on August 21, 2018. Read the original HERE. DURHAM, N.C. — Discovered more than half a century ago in Kenya and sitting in museum storage ever since, the roughly 20-million-year-old fossil Propotto leakeyi was long classified as a fruit bat. Now, it’s helping researchers rethink the early […]
For the past three days, students from Project BUILD — a pre-orientation program for rising Duke freshmen — have done great service work here at the DLC! 48 incoming freshmen and 24 upperclassmen leaders assisted with weeding and mulching projects around the center and got a chance to meet the lemurs for the first time! […]
Join local high school students taking part in the Duke Nicholas School of the Environment‘s Environmental Science Summer Program (ESSP) as they learn how they can help save the world’s most endangered mammals! Click HERE or anywhere on the image above to be redirected to YouTube to watch the video. Not only is it educational, […]
This video tutorial by Tamara Lackey Photography (Chapel Hill, NC) is a fabulous resource for anyone visiting the Lemur Center for a Walking with Lemurs tour! In it, Tamara shares tips for photographing fast-moving lemurs as well as capturing sharp portraits at very shallow depths of field. The photos she gets are GORGEOUS, and her enthusiasm […]
