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I Love Lemurs Video Contest #LemurWeek
Announcing the Winners! K-5 Category First Place – Kiera Goodwin Second Place – Brooke Grimsley Third Place – Joshua Garber Adult Category First Place – Olivia Bagley http://youtu.be/pZJqOFsVA44 Second Place – Louis Radifera https://youtu.be/-4aIYO_HU_8 Third Place – Hillary Mulder, Zinan Chen and Kathy Zhou School Classroom Mascoutah Elementary Environmental Club Your mission Make a short […]
Leaping Lemurs Summer Science Camp Registration begins Tuesday, Feb 3rd!
Registration for 2015 Leaping Lemurs Summer Science camp begins, Tuesday February 3rd! Please click here to see how to register your child! If you having a younger child, or one interested in art or writing, check out After School Art and More’s camps held here at the DLC! Click here.
Evening with the Experts – December 4th, Hibernation Isn’t Just For Bears
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. […]
Duke Science and Society Roundtable feat. Director Anne Yoder, PhD.
S&S Roundtable with Anne Yoder, PhD Science & Society Classroom 232 Thursday, October 16 12:00 PM Anne Yoder will present: Explosive evolution of the vomeronasal receptor (Class 1) genes in the lemurs: an exploration of causes and consequences Anne Yoder studies Madagascar’s unique and urgently threatened biodiversity. Her research uses comparative molecular evolutionary and […]
Evening with the Experts Seminar Series -October
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 […]
Evening with the Experts Seminar Series Returns!
Lemurs are the most endangered mammal on the planet. Learn what we are doing to change that. Delve deeper into the Duke Lemur Center and join us for our inaugural season of the “Evening with the Experts” seminar series. Each session will highlight one of the many components of the DLC’s important work. All proceeds […]
Matching gifts mean new set of wheels for SAVA Conservation in Madagascar
June 23, 2014 — Lemur researcher Erik Patel will be the first to tell you that driving in Madagascar is not for the faint of heart. Paved roads are rare. Street lights are nonexistent. Torrential rains turn dirt roads to solid mud for many months of the year. Bridges wash out, and just as quickly […]
