By Anne Yoder, Director of the Duke Lemur Center (2007-2017). Originally published in the Duke Lemur Center’s annual report, October 2015. August 30, 2015 was a day of mourning around the world as we learned that the great neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks had died. Obituaries and remembrances poured forth over the subsequent weeks, […]
Every summer, the Duke Lemur Center brings 25 interns to learn and work across all departments. Animal care, enrichment, research, fossil primates, development and education interns spend 10 weeks gaining firsthand experience in care, management and engagement. Here, education intern Ashley Juliana shares some of her experience. July 30, 2015 — Back in January of this […]
In honor of Mother’s Day and mothers everywhere, we are giving away prizes! Seven lucky people will win a copy of ZooBorns latest edition, ZooBorns Motherly Love, featuring our very own blue-eyed black lemur Hiddleston AND a year-long lemur adoption package. To enter, visit the Duke Lemur Center on Facebook and follow the instructions in the […]
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