September 13, 2022 We’ve received several reports today of an email scam involving persons falsely posing as DLC staff and requesting volunteers “to assist with a mass escape from the Lemur Center.” This email is a hoax. Please do not respond or communicate with the sender. Duke Lemur Center staff do a head count every […]
Erin Ehmke, Ph.D. Director of Research “Growing up, I knew my path would revolve around animals. I wanted so badly to follow in the footsteps of my hero, Jane Goodall, but had no idea how to make that dream a reality. At that time, the only careers I knew that worked with animals were zoo […]
“From a young age, I knew I wanted to work with animals when I grew up—how and what was unclear, but animals, yes. There was always a connection that wasn’t understood but always present. “When the time for attending college came, there wasn’t a hard choice for what to focus on; instead there was a […]
Curator of the DLC Colony “I started in the zoo field when I was 16, having cleaned stalls at my local horse barn since the ripe old age of seven. The famous Bronx Zoo got me hooked after I attended a summer internship that year. It was so exciting to be around all of those […]
