January 26, 2012 Elphaba, the Duke Lemur Center’s most recent Aye-aye infant is now 57 days old and weighing in at 586g!
Conservation endures…the first birth of 2012!
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. […]
The DLC says a sad goodbye to Romeo
January 17, 2012 “With great sadness, I write to announce an event that I have dreaded for many months now. Our beloved Romeo, the western hemisphere’s only diademed sifaka to be successfully housed in captivity, died this morning of natural causes after a prolonged illness. Death at the Duke Lemur Center is a rare event, and each […]
Pre-trip blog by Erik Patel
January 14, 2012 In just four days I leave for Madagascar where I’ll remain until August. The usual pre-trip mix of excitement and anxiety has set in. Four giant duffel bags are already full of research and camping gear for myself and our research team as well as forest and city cloths, medications (daily malaria […]
