Our Jumping Journey of Learning thru Lemurs While Integrating the Common Core Standards and Passion-Based Learning. March 12 — How do you interest 54 sixth-grade students in a year of learning? Not sitting and having information dumped into their heads, but TRUE, enthusiastic, engaged learning? Well, you LEMURIZE the curriculum, of course! Impetus Flashback to […]
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November, 11, 2014, Durham, NC — A quiet sadness spread over the Duke Lemur Center staff on Monday as news spread that Jovian, a much-loved Coquerel’s sifaka had died of kidney failure at the age of 20.5 years. Within the Lemur Center, Jovian was known as an exceptionally capable and caring father, having sired […]
National Geographic, August 27, 2014 http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/140827-lemur-babies-vin
August 12, 2014– The Duke Lemur Center offers unique opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in lemur husbandry, research and education during the summer. During their 10-week internships, students learn animal care or research methods and conduct their own independent research projects. DLC volunteer and writer, Mel Norris, followed research intern Melissa Chieffe as she collected […]
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 […]
May 18, 2014 – The Duke Lemur Center houses over 250 animals, but every individual is special. “Silver Lemurs” is a series profiling some of the Duke Lemur Center’s senior residents.The larger bodied lemurs — such as the ruffed lemurs, the sifakas and the aye-ayes — can live to be well into their 30s. Even […]
