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 […]
