WATCH NOW! Follow NBC’s Dagmar Midcap, host of “Down to Earth,” and LX News storyteller Cody Broadway as they take you inside the Duke Lemur Center, to meet the lemurs and the devoted team of scientists and researchers fighting to save them. While onsite this May, the NBC/LX team was here to capture our mission in […]
By Rhiannon See, 2022-23 Undergraduate Fellow in Communications Published September 15, 2022 This summer, the Duke Lemur Center completed an inspection through the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Accreditation Commission and received an extremely rare perfect score. As of November 2021, only four facilities had received a perfect score in the AZA’s nearly 50 […]
It’s that of year again: DLC technicians, equipped with ample supplies of sunscreen, bug spray, water, and clippers, are heading out into the field for the annual month-long period of sumac harvesting! The Lemur Center’s seven chest freezers, all empty since the start of spring, need to be filled with freshly harvested sumac leaves so […]
This winter, specialists from Triangle Veterinary Referral Hospital in Durham, NC assisted veterinarians at the Duke Lemur Center in the diagnosis and removal of rare cystine stones in the gallbladder of Junebug, a pygmy slow loris. The team’s detection and successful treatment of Junebug’s gallstones could improve medical care for lorises living at zoos and […]
