Celebrate Duke's Lemurs On World Lemur Day | On Scene

Celebrate #WorldLemurDay with a virtual visit to the Duke Lemur Center 💚
Founded in 1966, the Duke Lemur Center (DLC) is an internationally acclaimed non-invasive research facility housing over 200 lemurs and bushbabies across 13 species - the most diverse population of lemurs outside of their native Madagascar.
Lemurs are the most endangered group of mammals on Earth and the center's successful conservation breeding program seeks to preserve vanishing species such as the aye-aye, sifaka & blue-eyed black lemur, while the Madagascar Conservation Programs study and protect lemurs in their native habitat. The Division of Fossil Primates examines primate extinction and evolution over time and houses over 35,000 fossils. Because all of its research is non-invasive, the DLC is open to the public and also educates more than 35,000 visitors annually.
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The DLC began as a collaboration between Yale's John Buettner-Janusch & Duke's Peter Klopfer. The two biologists conceived the idea of establishing a primate facility in the Duke Forest that would combine their research perspectives in order to explore the genetic foundations of primate behavior.
Bill Anlyan - then dean of the Duke University School of Medicine - granted a large swath of Duke Forest to the project and the National Science Foundation provided the funds to build a “living laboratory” where lemurs and their close relatives could be studied intensively and non-invasively. In 1966, the nascent DLC (then called the Duke University Primate Center) was founded on 80 wooded acres, two miles from main campus
Over its history, the DLC has housed, cared for and made available for non-invasive study (DLC does not allow ANY research that would harm the lemurs in any way) nearly 4,000 animals across 31 species of non-human primates. Today, it houses nearly 200 individuals across 15 species. The scientific endeavors at the DLC span an array of disciplines and the DLC is recognized as a global authority on lemur veterinary medicine.
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A private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke University is known as one of the world’s leading institutions for education, research, and patient care.
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[@MichaelJPiros]

Extremely interesting & educational.

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omg, sifaka!!! I like them so cute!

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Amazing!

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