By Robin Smith. February 13, 2019. DURHAM, N.C. — Lemurs and killer whales have more in common than you might think. Sure, one prefers bananas and the other fish. And while lemurs are cat-sized, killer whales can grow to nearly the size of a bus. But both creatures can form friendships, solve puzzles and live […]
By Jonathan Black. Originally published in Duke Today on January 14, 2019. View the original HERE. Name: David Haring Title: Registrar/Photographer at Duke Lemur Center Years at Duke: 38 What he does: When Haring isn’t stationed in front of a computer working on animal records, he’s outdoors, capturing the lives of 220 lemurs at Duke Lemur Center in pictures. Haring takes […]
FROM THE ARCHIVES: DLC in the media from ’04 to ’15! Lemurs chat only with their best friends Dec. 28, 2015 Science News Up close with lemur gut bugs Oct. 29, 2015 American Scientist The aye-aye and the finger of death Oct. 29, 2015 Pacific Standard Duke Lemur Center educates and entertains June 23, 2015 […]
By LAURA PELLICER & FRANK STASIO. Originally published on December 19, 2018 on NPR’s The State of Things. Read the original HERE. Lemurs sit near the base of the primate evolutionary tree. As distant cousins to homo sapiens, their behavior, health and evolution may have significant implications for humans. At the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, researchers are actively studying […]
Attention high school teachers: We’re excited to share with everyone a free educational resource from Science Friday that the Duke Lemur Center veterinary team helped make a reality! Check out x-rays of some of our lemurs’ hands (including an aye-aye and a sifaka!) while learning about the mathematical patterns in their fingers: http://sciencefriday.com/fibonacci.
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 […]
