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2018 Annual Magazine EST. 1966 DUKE LEMUR CENTER MAGAZINE | 2018 PREMIERE ISSUE RARE C-SECTION DELIVERY THE DLC’S NEWEST AYE-AYE BLUE-EYED BLACK LEMURS ARRIVE FROM MADAGASCAR A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PRIMATE TECH CONTENTS 4 27 About the Duke Lemur Center The Woman Who Walks with Lemurs: An interview with the 6 DLC’s animal care supervisor Not Just Any Baby An extraordinary journey... and an equally extraordinary infant 30 In Memoriam: 12 A celebration of the life and work of Giving Opportunities Dr. Gregg Gunnell, the Fossil Hunter 14 34 ATTENTION ARTISTS: Welcome, Agatha! A Day in the Life of a Primate Technician We’d love to feature your work in The DLC welcomes its newest aye-aye our next magazine! To submit your painting, drawing, or photograph for 35 consideration, please email a high- 18 resolution jpg and your contact Madagascar: David Haring’s information to [email protected]. Of Conservation, Conflict, Favorite Image of the Year We’ll select our favorites for inclusion and Community BACK COVER in our next edition (Summer 2019). Male blue-eyed 22 Why Lemurs? black lemur (Eulemur flavifrons). TLC for a “Tough Little Cookie”: Artist Mina Milk of The story of Leigh, a critically Fox and Owl Studio in Moscow, Russia: endangered infant rejected by her instagram.com/ mother at just five weeks old foxndowl. For more articles, photos, and special features, please visit our online edition: LEMUR.DUKE.EDU/MAGAZINE EDITORS: STAY CONNECTED: Sara Clark, David Haring, Laura Jones Subscribe to our mailing list: Comments, feedback, or something lemur.duke.edu/newsletter you’d like to see in our next edition? EMAIL [email protected]. Bookmark lemur.duke.edu We’d love to hear from you! Printed on eco-friendly FSC-certified paper facebook.com/dukelemurcenter twitter.com/dukelemurcenter ON THE COVER: Seven-month-old Beatrice, a Coquerel’s instagram.com/dukelemurcenter sifaka, “hanging out” in one of the DLC’s signature Natural Habitat Enclosures. youtube.com/dukelemurcenter Photo by David Haring. 2 / DUKE LEMUR CENTER DLC ONE OF THE MANY things I love about LETTER FROM working at the Duke Lemur Center is the willingness of the staff to try something THE DIRECTOR new. In this, our inaugural magazine issue, we are exploring a new way to connect with our diverse audience in order to better communicate our mission and raise awareness of the plight of lemurs, the world’s most endangered mammals. In the pages that follow you will read about the heroic efforts of our veterinary staff, the collaborative innovation of our research department, the determination of our conservationists, and the endless drive and enormous hearts of our animal care team. For 52 years, the Duke Lemur Center has led local and global community efforts to protect and study lemurs. We do it for the simple reason that we love lemurs. We are passionately curious about each species; we are emotionally and physically invested in seeing each animal thrive; and we are filled with hope that future generations will know the wonder of these amazing animals. We also know that we can’t do this alone. We are grateful for the support of Duke University’s administration and leadership, our thousands of supporters and donors, and the hundreds of dedicated professionals who came before us. Without them our efforts would be muted, our mission simply words on paper. With your support and engagement our voices are amplified, our vison inspired, and our actions empowered. What we have at the Duke Lemur Center is truly special and I am very proud to be a part of it. GREG DYE Interim Director, Duke Lemur Center LEMUR.DUKE.EDU / 3 ABOUT THE DLC MISSION RESEARCH A world leader in the study, care, and Curiosity and knowledge prompt Today, what began as a collaboration protection of lemurs—Earth’s most discovery. Discovery prompts action. between two researchers studying the threatened group of mammals—the And the more we learn about lemurs, genetic foundations of primate behavior Duke Lemur Center is a hub of scientific the better we are able to protect them in has blossomed into an internationa- discovery on the campus of Duke the wild, care for them in captivity, and lly-acclaimed facility that supports University in Durham, North Carolina. engage the public to not only care, but research across a huge variety of disci- to participate. And how do we discover? plines. The DLC is home to nocturnal, With nearly 240 animals across 16 Through research! diurnal, and cathemeral animals as species, the DLC houses the world’s well as species that encompass a wide largest and most diverse population of In 1966, John Buettner-Janusch, a Yale range of social systems, modes of lemurs outside their native Madagascar. anthropologist, partnered with Duke locomotion, and dietary preferences. biologist and Yale alumnus Peter Such variety yields a large and diverse Our mission is to advance science, Klopfer to relocate Buettner-Janusch’s research program, and students and scholarship, and biological conservation colony of lemurs from Connecticut to researchers from across campus and through interdisciplinary non-invasive North Carolina. The National Science around the world travel to the DLC research, community-based Foundation provided the funds to build to study topics ranging from brain conservation, and public outreach a “living laboratory” where lemurs and sciences to biomechanics, One Health and education. their close relatives could be studied disease dynamics, aging, paleontology, intensively and non-invasively. In 1966, genomics, and more. The one thing that the nascent DLC was founded on 80 all DLC research has in common is that it wooded acres, two miles from the main is non-invasive: we do not allow research Duke campus. that will harm our animals in any way. On a brisk autumn day in 1984, ring-tailed lemurs huddle together in a “lemur ball” in Natural Habitat Enclosure #2 (eight acres). Photo by David Haring. 4 / DUKE DUKE LEMUR LEMUR CENTER CENTER ABOUT THE DLC CONSERVATION EDUCATION Lemurs are found in the wild only in The DLC also works within a network Because its research is non-invasive, Madagascar, where their habitat has of other accredited institutions to the DLC is open to the public. More dwindled to only a fraction of what it develop and adhere to Species Survival than 32,000 people visit every year once was: only about 10% of the Plans (SSPs), which use carefully to learn about lemurs, science, and original vegetation cover remains. planned conservation breeding conservation. Revenue generated by To protect the world’s only wild lemurs programs to create a “genetic safety our public tour program and camps and the biodiversity they represent, the net” for rare and endangered species helps fund the Education Department DLC works “on the ground” with local such as the aye-aye, sifaka, and and pay for lemur care, housing, Malagasy communities to preserve blue-eyed black lemur. In partnership veterinary supplies, and conservation lemurs’ natural habitat. with these institutions, we’re helping programs in Madagascar. Learn more to ensure “the sustainability of a at lemur.duke.edu/visit. Madagascar is the 10th poorest country healthy, genetically diverse, and stable” in the world, with subsistence agriculture population of lemurs for the long-term In addition, the DLC offers unparalleled being the primary driver of forest loss. future. We’re proud to have celebrated educational and research opportunities 3O years of conservation experience has more than 3,285 births since our to students and faculty. Field research taught the DLC that sustainable forest founding in 1966. internships introduce students to protection in Madagascar is a long-term lemur research and data collection, investment that requires building the Director’s Fund offers financial relationships and earning the trust of the support to Duke graduate students SAVA REGION: The local people. The DLC-SAVA Conservation DLC’s in situ (in the pursuing research at the DLC, and classes project relies on a community-based wild) conservation offered through Duke’s Department approach to protecting natural forests, efforts are focused of Primate Anthropology often include using an array of project activities within the SAVA region observations of free-ranging lemurs. of Madagascar. designed to protect the forest and to Our online resources and MicroCT improve the lives of the Malagasy people. scans of fossils from the DLC’s Division of Fossil Primates—available at no charge at morphosource.com—are utilized internationally as educational and research resources. MADAGASCAR LEMUR.DUKE.EDU / 5 6 / DUKE LEMUR CENTER NOT JUST ANY BABYBY SARA CLARK THE BIRTH OF RANOMASINA, THE FIRST INFANT BORN TO THE FIRST LEMURS IMPORTED FROM MADAGASCAR TO THE U.S. IN 24 YEARS MAIN PHOTO: Ranomasina INSET PHOTOS: Velona (left) and shortly after birth. Blue-eyed Mangamaso (right) were born at black lemurs at the DLC and Parc Ivoloina, a nonprofit nature other institutions worldwide center in eastern Madagascar. form a genetic safety net for their The Duke Lemur Center and Parc species. Each new birth helps Ivoloina, which managed by the sustain a healthy and genetically Madagascar Fauna and Flora diverse population of blue-eyed Group, have been partners since black lemurs for the long-term 1987. Photos by David Haring. future. Photo by Sara Clark. LEMUR.DUKE.EDU / 7 Ranomasina and Velona hours after birth. Ranomasina, a blue-eyed black lemur As for any major procedure involving highly (Eulemur flavifrons) whose name means endangered animals, the veterinary staff “sea” in Malagasy, was delivered via consulted experts from a variety of specialties. caesarean section on April 12, 2018. In Ranomasina’s case, information was sought She is the first offspring of Velona and from Elley Schopler, a lactation consultant Mangamaso, the first lemurs imported at The Women’s Birth and Wellness Center from Madagascar to the U.S.
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