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Eat Pizza, Help Lemurs

May 7 and 8 pizza event at Southpoint will help lemurs

West, a female blue-eyed black lemur, with her baby Hiddleston at the Duke Lemur Center.
West, a female blue-eyed black lemur, with her baby Hiddleston at the Duke Lemur Center.

The Duke Lemur Center is hosting a special event at California Pizza Kitchen at the Streets at Southpoint on May 7 and 8 to help save lemurs, the most endangered mammals on the planet.

California Pizza Kitchen will donate 20 percent of the cost of lunch, dinner or takeout orders to the Duke Lemur Center when customers present this flier. The Lemur Center will use the funds for conservation efforts in Madagascar, the island home of lemurs, those cuddly-looking primates who are ancient relatives of monkeys, apes and humans. The money will also help pay for the daily care of lemurs at the 85-acre Duke Lemur Center in Duke Forest.

The Duke Lemur Center is the world's largest sanctuary for rare and endangered lemurs and other prosimian primates. The center houses about 250 animals, including 233 lemurs encompassing 15 species, along with lorises from India and Southeast Asia and bushbabies from Africa.

"The money raised will go directly toward saving the species," said Janice Kalin, development associate for the Duke Lemur Center.