Lemur Center

Ph.D. candidate Caroline Shearer (right) and one of her undergraduate students observe a ring-tailed lemur at the Duke Lemur Center.

November 10, 2022

Duke's iconic primates help Caroline Shearer teach students how to ask, and answer, research questions

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black and white ruffed lemur

September 6, 2022

Predicting What Lemur Extinctions Mean for the Forests They Call Home

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Steven Heritage, a researcher at the Duke Lemur Center’s Museum of Natural History, holds the 33-million-year-old fossil mandible of an extinct sea cow which is related to modern manatees. (Catherine Riddle)

August 25, 2022

New Research Tracks the History of Manatees Across Earth’s Oceans

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Ferdinand the leaf-eating lemur

August 23, 2022

Lemur Gut Isn’t One Ecosystem, It’s Many

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Lemurs sit on the leaves while visiting researcher Meredith Semel collects data behind them in 2020. Photo by Jared Lazarus, University Communications.

August 17, 2022

Unique Duke Experiences: The Duke Lemur Center

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From top left: Azalea and Tiger Lily; Hoku; Hapi; and Cordelia.

August 2, 2022

Baby Week at the Duke Lemur Center

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bushbaby twins Mopani and Damara

June 17, 2022

Welcome New Bushbaby Twins Mopani and Damara to the Lemur Center

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lemur twins Hubble and Kitt

May 26, 2022

This Time It's Twins for the Red Ruffed Lemurs!

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binx, the newest aye-aye

April 5, 2022

Meet Binx, the First Aye-Aye Born at Duke Since 2011

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Silas, born at the Duke Lemur Center

March 7, 2022

Meet Silas, Zoboomafoo's Newest Grandlemur

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Camilla, the first baby lemur of the 21-22 breeding season

February 9, 2022

Welcome Camilla, the First Baby Lemur of the Season

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lemurs head to germany

December 7, 2021

Two by Two, the Lemurs Take Germany

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A book, blanket, shirt, ornament and bear.

December 6, 2021

9 Gifts that Bring Duke Spirit to Your Holidays

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World Lemur Day celebration video

October 27, 2021

Lemurs Get Their Day

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Fossils of the key groups used to unveil the Eocene-Oligocene extinction in Africa with primates on the left, the carnivorous hyaenodont, upper right, rodent, lower right. These fossils are from the Fayum Depression in Egypt. (Matt Borths)

October 7, 2021

The Climate-Driven Mass Extinction No One Had Seen

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Research scientists Marina Blanco, Ph.D. and Lydia Greene,

September 23, 2021

Why Do You Study That? How Lemur Research Can Help Endangered Species

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