If there was a contest for biggest female bullies of the animal world, lemurs would be near the top of the list. In these distant primate cousins, it’s the ladies who call the shots, relying on ...
Greg Dye has been reappointed to a second five-year term as executive director of the Duke Lemur Center (DLC), Provost Alec Gallimore announced this week. The reappointment followed an administrative ...
Farewell to Peter Klopfer, arrested in 1964 trying to desegregate Watts Grill in Chapel Hill. His US Supreme Court case still ...
Media are invited to learn more about the latest research on lemurs and their conservation at a two-day symposium at Duke University in Durham, NC. September 22-23 ...
The Duke Lemur Center houses the only colony of fat-tailed dwarf lemurs within human care. All research conducted at the Lemur Center is noninvasive. It has two state-of-the-art hibernacula rooms, ...
The Duke Lemur Center in Durham, which houses the largest number of lemurs outside Madagascar, is hosting Lemur Week through April 5 in conjunction with the release of a new IMAX 3D film, "Island Of ...
Peter Klopfer, a Duke zoologist and co-founder of the Duke Lemur Center, died on June 5 at 95. A Quaker pacifist and civil-rights activist, he refused the Korean War draft, supported student ...
Mouse lemurs are tiny — they weigh as much as a golf ball if the ball had giant eyes and a fluffy tail. But because they are genetically similar to humans, mouse lemurs may provide researchers at the ...
Did you know that the star lemur from the educational children’s show “Zoboomafoo” was born and raised in North Carolina? The lemur, a Coquerel’s sifaka whose real-life name was Jovian, was born at ...