Like most animals, lemurs compete with each other for scarce resources such as territory, food and reproductive mates. While sometimes this type of squabble is resolved by fighting, sharp teeth and claws can result in serious injuries to one or both participants. Ringtail lemurs live in large social groups of 20 – 30 individuals in […]
Hello. My name is Anne, and I am addicted to mouse lemurs —- or perhaps I should say, to studying mouse lemurs, or maybe more specifically, to the genes of mouse lemurs. It all started back in the late 1990′s when I began a collaboration with my friend and colleague, Steve Goodman (Madagascar Field Biologist Extraordinaire). Steve wrote to […]
Sifaka birth season is now officially over! In addition to the birth of Pia’s infant, Gisela, on 7 January (reported earlier in this blog), 13 year old Rupillia gave birth to a son, Remus, on 12 January (sire is 24 year old Tiberius), and 4.5 year old Rodelinda gave birth to a daughter on 26 […]
News Flash: Ardrey the aye aye’s infant, Elphaba is out of the nest! She was sighted outside and away from the nest for the first time last Saturday, 2/11 at the age of 74 days. Once infants start leaving their mom’s nest they pretty much immediately start, somewhat tentatively at first, exploring the entire room […]
We’re at the Duke Lemur Center, and we have lengths of dowel, duct tape, grape jelly and two bags of craisins. Guess what’s going to happen next? Some construction? A fat-free picnic? A food fight? Well, no … actually we are with Katie Grogan, a Duke graduate student, who is going to use this equipment (and […]
February 4, 2012 This week we sent out a shipment of 53 donated veterinary reference books, destined for the College of Veterinary Medicine of Madagascar, Antananarivo. The books will reinforce the new school’s fledgling library which has a tiny budget with which to purchase badly needed reference books. Our 53 books have been shipped to […]
January 26, 2012 Elphaba, the Duke Lemur Center’s most recent Aye-aye infant is now 57 days old and weighing in at 586g!
January 24, 2012 Our thirteen year old Coquerel’s sifaka female, Pia, has became the first sifaka to deliver an infant this nascent 2012 birth season (a total of four sifaka females were pronounced pregnant by our Vet Staff). She gave birth to a female weighing 103 grams, in the early morning hours of January 7th. […]