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David Haring, Editor & Photographer • Design by Hilliker Designs This publication was printed using 100% pcw recycled paper, processed chlorine free and with soy ink. I have known for the majority of my life that I wanted to study Leaping Forward: primates. Ever since I read a book by Jane Diversifying the DLC’s Goodall as a child, I have been hooked. Educational Opportunities This group of animals never fails to amaze By Niki Barnett, Education Programs Manager/ and fascinate me— how Development Officer Madagascar: they can be like us in so many ways and at the Here at the DLC we are constantly moving forward. We have made 15 years later same time teach us how tour, was the International Prosimian Congress, which extraordinary leaps in our research programs, conservation efforts, and most we are unique. Duke convened August 5-9, 2013 at the ValBio Research recently, in our educational programming. This past year was extremely busy, was a natural choice for Time flies. We all know the feeling. We look back Station at the edge of Ranomafana National Park but very exciting! Our tour program thrived. Over 18,000 visitors made their college. It is a very good on our college years, and it seems like yesterday. We in southeastern Madagascar. In the words of the way to the Duke Lemur Center from all over the globe, 5,000 more than the place to be if, like me, look at our high-school aged kids, and it seems like just organizers, “The International Prosimian Congress is previous record-breaking year! Not only did they come for tours, but also to you find yourself in love a day or two ago that we were changing their diapers. recognized as the most important global meeting for partake in our wonderful new programming. with primates. Unless I had a most memorable “time flies” experience this primatologists studying any aspect of prosimian biology Last fall we piloted our Primates for Preschoolers programs. These programs you go to Madagascar summer when I went to Madagascar — my first trip to present and share their experiences.” This was the enable children ages 3-5 a way to connect with lemurs in a new way. Our hands- itself, you will find there since 1998! Can it really have been that long? first such congress to be held in more than five years, on, parent-guided activities, focusing on lemur research and enrichment, provide more lemurs here than What brought me back to Madagascar after all and I simply could not ignore the chance to attend children with a level of engagement that is usually lacking for this age group in anywhere else in the this time? For years I have wanted to return, but and present work, ongoing in my lab in collaboration our standard tours. world. responsibilities (not the least of which was the birth of with postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jason Brown, on the This summer, after more than a year of planning, we launched our Leaping I knew immediately my son Dylan, in 1999) made it impossible. This year, likely effects of climate change on lemurs and their Lemurs Summer Science Camp. Both sessions we offered quickly filled up, and that I wanted to work though, everything fell in place for a return visit. First future distributions (more about this once our paper were judged by campers and their parents, as well as participating DLC staff, at the Lemur Center. and foremost, I had the opportunity to finally tour our is accepted for publication!) In addition to my own to be a great success! Rising 6th-8th graders from all over the country made In fact, I landed a job SAVA Conservation Initiative. This I did with Charlie participation, the DLC was thoroughly represented by their way to us to learn all about lemurs and the DLC! Each week-long session as a tour guide the day Welch, Erik Patel, and, as an added bonus, Karl Bates of staff, students, and postdocs. By my count, there were covered all aspects of the Lemur Center, from lemur husbandry and research before I even set foot Duke News and Communications. Charlie’s article in at least 12 DLC associates presenting at the Congress. at Duke to our conservation activities in Madagascar. The favorite activity on Duke’s campus. It this issue provides complete details on this phase of the Prior to the Congress, the DLC made a commitment of the campers proved to be the making and feeding out of aye-aye diets and has been a wonderful trip. There’s not really much for me to add to Charlie’s to sponsor Malagasy registration fees in order enrichment. Next year we hope to expand on our camp program and offer experience, seeing these excellent account, beyond my own personal reactions. to promote student attendance at the meeting. similar camps for children of younger ages. amazing creatures every I would sum these up as being deeply impressed by Accordingly, the DLC logo was everywhere, and I This summer we also started our Evening with the Experts seminar series. week and getting to all that is getting done with very limited resources (a cannot begin to count the number of times that I was These classroom-based lectures give adults a way to delve deeper into what makes share this passion with little goes a very long way in Madagascar!); grateful for thanked for our support by the Congress organizers the Lemur Center so special. The seminars kicked off in July with Conservation the Center’s visitors. the amazing leadership and talent that Charlie and Erik and by the Malagasy student participants. Again, a Coordinator, Charlie Welch introducing people to the important conservation I am also involved in bring to the project; and optimistic that at the end of little bit goes a very long way in Madagascar. The work being conducted in the SAVA region of Madagascar. In August, Lead other primate-related the day, our efforts in Madagascar will make a positive sophistication, excellence, and passion that the Primate Technician Julie McKinney, talked about All things Aye-aye to a sold opportunities at Duke. I difference in the lives of the Malagasy people, and of Malagasy students brought to their presentations were out crowd! Next up is Behavioral Management Coordinator, Meg Dye, and her am the president of the course, in the hope for lemurs’ long-term survival. I impressive beyond description. They are the future of presentation, Are you smarter than a lemur? This session will focus on how primate conservation must also add the word amazed to my list of reactions, conservation biology in Madagascar, and if the quality positive reinforcement training has enabled us to better manage our colony and to club Roots & Shoots, as it was indeed amazing to see first-hand just how of the Malagasy science as represented at the Congress assist our researchers. I work in a lab dealing much our work there is valued by the Malagasy people is any predictor of the fate of Madagascar’s biodiversity, We are so excited about the response to our new programming! Stayed tuned with the Jane Goodall whose lives we are touching. then I believe we have reason to feel very optimistic. for our winter classroom programs geared towards 6th-12th grade students. At virtually every stop that we made, the DLC Certainly, I came away with renewed confidence, and Institute’s chimpanzee logo was proudly displayed, and the words “Duke also with renewed passion for supporting the Malagasy data, and I am majoring Lemur Center” were on the lips of all, invariably people as they prepare for a future that assures their in Evolutionary spoken with a mix of admiration and appreciation. own health and welfare, as well as that of the lemurs. Anthropology. The SAVA region is a relatively vast geographic area in That is truly the only way forward. Duke and its lemurs Madagascar, and our footprint is correspondingly large have put me on my --- so, finally, let me add the word proud to the list. I way to becoming a 18,741 primatologist. am tremendously proud of the work that the DLC is people visited doing in Madagascar, none of which would be possible the DLC By Kyle Smith, without the support of our generous donors. last year Lemur Landing The second opportunity, in addition to the SAVA PhD, Director Work Study Student Division of Fossil Primates News Hibernating Lemurs Hint By Gregg Gunnell, Director Division of Fossil Primates at the Secrets of Sleep I first went to the badlands in Wyoming By Robin Smith, DLC Science writing and communications (for more, see Bobby Schopler’s article “ Sleepless in Tsinjoarivo in the DLC annual report, 2012) in 1975. I was 20 years old with no clue what I wanted to do with my life. By studying hibernation, a Duke I returned to the Wyoming badlands Lemur Center team is providing this past summer for the 33th time in a window into why humans 38 years. I sat on the top of Continental sleep. Observations of little- Peak (8431 feet) – the climb up gets a bit in three years and remembered another known primates, the dwarf lemurs harder each year but the view is worth reason why I enjoy going there as often (Cheirogaleus spp), both in captivity the effort – and wondered why I had as I can. It is the history of discovery at the DLC (Cheirogaleus medius) to our amazing volunteers! spent the better part of all those past in the American West that enhances the and in the wild (Cheirogaleus sibreei) summers camping in the badlands. It’s a field work experience. One of the areas have revealed that these squirrel simple answer really. The thrill of finding in SW Wyoming where we worked this sized nocturnal lemurs found only a fossil cannot be replaced by any other summer was one of the first places where in Madagascar, go for days without feeling. After all of those years I still gasp fossil mammals were found in North the deepest part of sleep during and my heart beats a little faster when I America beginning in the late 1860’s. The Marissa Acciana their winter hibernation season. Melissa Ballantyne see a row of gleaming teeth of some long other area we worked was a critical route The findings support the idea that Heather Bell dead animal shining up at me under a through the Rocky Mountains for early sleep plays a role in regulating body Samrath Bhattacharya noon day sun. Even now, even after all of settlers traveling west after the Civil War. temperature and metabolism. Nutishia Blake these years the thrill remains. The remnants of the Oregon, Immigrant, Rachel Blake Despite decades of research, why and California Trails can still be seen at Jana Bradley I don’t remember the first fossil I ever we sleep is still a mystery. Theories their bodies heat up and cool down sleep. Hibernating lemurs did Christina Burt South Pass. found in Wyoming. It was probably range from conserving energy, with the temperature of the outside show periods of brain activity Julie Byrne a piece of turtle shell since they often Add to that my own modest history of Alexis Cacchione to processing information and air, fluctuating by as much as 25 consistent with the phase field work with that of my paleontological Mary Elyn Cacchione litter the landscape but I do remember memories, to removing toxins that degrees Celsius in a single day. of sleep known as rapid eye forbearers and a long continuity of Mark Chandler the first mammal I ever found – there build up when we’re awake. “If For most mammals, a change in movement (REM) sleep -- when Monica Chen exploration can be traced into the past were some large, black, wrinkled- we spend nearly a third of our lives body temperature by more than a most dreaming is believed to Laura Chesnut in Wyoming. The paleoanthropologist Bill Cramer looking teeth lying on the surface of an doing it, it must have some specific few degrees for any period of time occur -- but only when winter whose office I now occupy at Duke Dalia Dahir eroding badland hill and I was told they purpose,” said lead author Andrew would be life-threatening. But for the temperatures rose above 25 Morgan Daly (Elwyn Simons) was the advisor to my belonged to Coryphodon. I discovered Krystal, a sleep researcher at Duke. fat-tailed dwarf lemur, hibernation degrees Celsius. Elyse Dankoski that Coryphodon was among the largest advisor at the University of Michigan Elora Dash One theory is that sleep helps is a way to conserve energy during As a next step, the team is (Philip Gingerich), both of whom Mark Delves mammals that lived in the early Eocene regulate body temperature and Madagascar’s long winter dry season, returning to the highlands of Ethan Doherty took part of their training from Glenn of western North America some 52 metabolism. In a study that appeared a time of year when food and water Madagascar to study another April Dube million years ago. It was cow-sized and Jepsen at Princeton University. This Tim Duett September 4th in the journal PLOS are in short supply. group of hibernators -- a family past summer I was lucky enough to go Betsy Englishman like cows it was an herbivore but beyond ONE, researchers have found If thermoregulation is one function of small hedgehog-like animals to Wyoming with five of my former Herb Englishman that Coryphodon had nothing to do support for this idea in the fat-tailed of sleep, the researchers asked, can called tenrecs. Pamela Entzel students – Jonathan Bloch (University of with cows. It was member of an ancient dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus medius). dwarf lemurs in torpor get away with By identifying similarities Susan Fitzgerald Florida), Doug Boyer (Duke University), Bailey Gatens order of mammals, now extinct, called The closest genetic relative to less sleep? between dwarf lemurs and Kathleen Muldoon (Dartmouth College), Soren George-Nichol pantodonts. Even though I was certain humans that is known to hibernate, To find out, they studied dwarf other hibernating animals, Simone Godwin Mary Silcox (University of Toronto) I’d become world famous because of the fat-tailed dwarf lemur spends lemurs hibernating in the wild on the researchers may one day be able Kylie Grady my find (I didn’t), I quickly learned that and John-Paul Zonneveld (University Savannah Gupton up to seven months each year in west coast of Madagascar (Sibree’s to induce hibernation-like states of Alberta) – all of whom are professors Lauren Hagedorn Coryphodon wasn’t all that rare nor was a physiological state known as dwarf lemur, C.sibreei), and also non- in humans. Being able to push Emily Hardgrove at major universities and who are now it particularly hard to find given that it torpor, where the regulation of body torpid animals sleeping at the Duke humans into standby mode Jody Harper was so large. All of that mattered not to bringing their own students with them to Lisa Hathaway temperature stops and metabolism Lemur Center (the fat-tailed dwarf by temporarily reducing heart Wyoming. It is the history and the legacy Scott Hennes me because it was my first fossil and to slows down. lemur, C. medius). The researchers rate and brain activity could of Western American field work that Tatiana Henry this day I still have a soft spot in my heart In torpor, these lemurs can measured brain activity, oxygen buy time for patients who have Katrina Hillhouse brings us all back each summer – that and for Coryphodon. drop their heart rate from 120 to intake and other vital signs. suffered head trauma or heart Carol Holman the thrill of discovery. As one of my close Kristen Hopper Even though it is now harder to get a mere 6 beats per minute, and They found that dwarf lemurs attacks, extend the shelf life of colleagues always reminds me, primates Allison Jaillet away every year and not possible to go breathing slows to a crawl. Instead in torpor went for days without transplant organs, or even open Cackie Joyner like to pick up shiny objects – why should for six week field seasons anymore, I of maintaining a steady body the slow-wave, low-amplitude the door to long-distance space Arthur Juliani still feel the pull of the badlands. This humans be any different than our other Amber Kenney temperature like most mammals, brain activity associated with deep travel. past summer I returned for the first time primate relatives? CITATION: (2013). “The relationship of sleep with temperature and metabolic rate in a hibernating primate,” Krystal, A., B. Schopler, et al. PLOS ONE, 2013. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069914 Summer Intern Total Program Volunteer By Meg Dye, Student Project Coordinator/Animal Behavior and Enrichment Coordinator Hours:

On August 3, 2013 Duke Lemur Center staff, graduate students and 7976 faculty gathered for the 2nd Annual Intern Project Symposium. The Symposium marked the conclusion of a 10-week summer internship by 19 participants. The summer interns were both local and from out of Jennifer state and represented a variety of to our amazing volunteers! Universities including UNC, Duke, Nunez NCSU, DePauw, Clemson, Tuskegee Volunteer role at the DLC: I give regular tours once and George Washington University. ..As far as getting to spend time a week and also work in the veterinary department, During the 10 weeks with us with the animals, learn a lot about currently on a research project regarding the the interns focused their time and the facility, and actually do research, mortality of the Coquerel’s sifakas. projects with a particular area of all the expectations I had about the Elizabeth Klinck choice including Data Research, internship were definitely met… George Kolasa Length of volunteering: I have been volunteering since Whitney Lamb Field Research, Husbandry, and Overall I would definitely recommend the fall of 2009. Rachel Manchester Animal Training and Enrichment. the internship to any of my friends Alanna Marron In addition to learning and helping interested in primatology! I am going Why you volunteer at the DLC: My volunteer day at Patricia Massard in a specific area, the interns came to miss the place... Morgan McCafferty the Lemur Center is often the happiest day of my week. I Matthew McConnell together every Tuesday to listen to a -Arthur Juliani, Data Intern Timothy love introducing people, young and old, to these amazing Sheima Mehrizi seminar presented by a department creatures and telling the tales of their native home in Rebecca Newton manager. The goal of the seminar I enjoyed this internship so much, it Holly Noel Duett Madagascar. Not only do these beautiful primates quickly Jennifer Nunez series was to teach the interns was genuinely sad to leave! I love telling Volunteer role at the DLC: I am a Technician capture people’s hearts and imagination with their sweet Andrew Odriscoll about all aspects of the DLC and people about it and about lemurs! I faces, quirky jumps and playful antics, but the world they Morgan O’Neill how all the departments are closely really enjoyed meeting everyone and Assistant (TA) so I help the primate technicians Matthew O’Neill with whatever tasks need to be done on a given come from is truly fascinating as well, the perfect image Janet Page intertwined to achieve the DLC’s learning about the amazing work that day. of a land filled with wonder that we desperately need Brittany Parsons goals of research, education and everyone has done and is doing. to protect. It is a rare profession when one can both fill Patty Pearthree conservation. -Katrina Keith-Hillhouse, people with joy and excitement, while still educating and Moira Pelton All of the 2013 summer interns did Field Research Intern What do you do for a living? I am currently Felicia Regan a junior at NC State University majoring in promoting the conservation of our most vulnerable lands. Sheena Riddick an excellent job contributing to the I’ve been fascinated by lemurs since I first learned about Robert Riesen Biological Sciences. daily activities of the DLC as well I have nothing but compliments them in my college evolution class, and to be able to work Anne Rosenburg as contributions to what we know and praises for this internship! It was Hannah Schanzer Length of Volunteering: I began volunteering with them on a daily basis, live and in the flesh, is more Rhonda Sherman about the animals that live here. We absolutely more than I had expected and than I could have ever hoped for. Ella Simkus are already looking forward to our I love every minute. To be able to work in May, so I still discover new and exciting things Jamie So 2104 Summer Intern Program! so close with the lemurs and do so much about the lemurs each week! Madison Stanley Favorite species: Coquerel’s sifaka Michelle Stiles Upon the conclusion of the for them, as well as working with the Why you volunteer at the DLC: I have always Allison Stitt summer internship program, we staff was just amazing. What do you do for a living? Geriatric Physician Laura Strickland were pleased to hear positive -Holly Noel, Husbandry Intern been interested in wildlife, and I think the Alissa Tepedino research and conservation efforts being done Brian Thompson feedback from the participants, Grant Thurston including the following: I think everything this summer was here at the DLC are extremely important. This Tyne Tyson fantastic, I got more from this experience opportunity is also helping me gain valuable Michael Umphrey The Husbandry Internship than I could have expected. The Summer experience for my future pursuits. Katherine Vayda Tezin Walji definitely exceeded my expectations! Seminar series was great; I loved learning Jennifer Walker I was truly amazed at how much about the different components of the Favorite Species: Hard to pick a favorite, but I Kay Welser animal contact we were given as DLC…I had no idea just how involved really enjoy any time I get to spend around the Nicole Vhinery Sifakas. The comical way they leap around never Kathy Windsor husbandry interns, and I loved that I the DLC is in Madagascar. Anna Elyse Yarbrough saw the animals everyday. -Michelle Stiles, Animal Training and ceases to make me laugh. Katerina Zapfe -Jamie So, Husbandry Intern Enrichment Intern Fencing in Director Anne Yoder Visits DLC’s the Future SAVA Conservation Project By Charlie Welch, Conservation Coordinator By Greg Dye, Operations Manager In August, DLC Director, Anne Sambava, the heart of the SAVA region, Yoder; Duke’s Director of Research and the base for our conservation Duke Roots and Shoots group volunteers to Communications, Karl Bates; and myself project. Project leaders Erik Patel and predator proof enclosure fencing. set off for Madagascar for a whirlwind two Lanto Andrianandrasana met us at weeks: first to tour DLC conservation the airport, and gave us a tour of the projects in the SAVA region, then to attend impressive new project office. The the Prosimian Congress in Ranomfana office serves as a base of operations, National Park at the nearly opposite end and includes guest rooms for project of the country (see Dr Yoder’s article this collaborators and visitors. The next issue). After the seemingly endless series morning we set off for the town of of flights to Madagascar from Durham, we Andapa, center of many of our project collapsed in our hotel beds in the capital of activities. On the beautiful winding of our helping to support her efforts Have you ever heard the saying, “good fences make Antananarivo (Tana) at midnight, only to be mountain drive up we stopped to in environmental education, which is for good neighbors”? This is especially true when rudely awoken just a few hours later to get visit a tree nursery that is part of our so badly needed throughout the SAVA your neighbor houses over 250 lemurs, as many as 80 back on the road to catch an early morning collaboration with Graine de Vie, and region. We were received with warm of which might be free ranging in forested enclosures flight to Tamatave. No time for jetlag! a Green Charcoal project that we are enthusiasm at Macolline (double and right next door. Since May, the Lemur Center has After a chaotic check-in at the Tana supporting, to reduce cutting of trees triple cheek kisses galore!), and Marie been slowly replacing nearly three miles of fence line airport, and 40 minute flight, we were met for cooking fuel. Upon arriving in Helene soon had us planting ceremonial installed in the late 1980s. All new fencing is being in Tamatave by Madagascar Fauna Group Andapa, we met the two Duke Engage trees, touring her new environmental buried one foot in the ground to keep raccoons and (MFG) project manager Maya Moore, student volunteers working with the interpretive center, and walking around foxes, which might have developed a taste for monkey and whisked to the MFG long-term project over the summer, Sophia Staal, in her forest of planted native trees. We chow over the years, outside our boundaries. conservation project at Parc Ivoloina 12 and Cameron Tripp. Sophia is helping look forward to future collaborations Why so much fencing? First off, there is the brand Kilometers north of town. Andrea Katz to build a business model to promote with Marie Helene! new eight foot high perimeter fence surrounding and I began working at Ivoloina in 1987, the sustainability of our fish farming In typical Malagasy VIP fashion, as we the entire 70 acre Lemur Center campus (replacing as part of a collaboration between the ponds, and Cameron is observing visited Macolline, our baggage, airline the old six foot high perimeter fence). Then there Duke Primate Center and Madagascar’s bamboo lemurs and mapping tickets, and passports were whisked away are the entirely separate fence lines (all six feet high department of Water and Forests. Over boundaries in a nearby private reserve, to the airport ahead of us, so that we and topped with electronet to deter lemurs from the years, Ivoloina was developed into a Antanetiambo. The following day we could prolong our stay in the gardens. We climbing) used to establish the nine free ranging lemur multi-faceted conservation project that visited the demonstration fish pond, arrived at the airport to checked baggage, enclosures in Duke Forest. Not all this fencing is being is now managed by the MFG, of which which is the initial stage of our fish freshly issued boarding passes, and, replaced, but over a mile of it is. Even more fencing the DLC is a founding and managing farming initiative. A first successful thankfully, our passports! We boarded is needed where two lemur enclosures are adjacent. level member. The conservation work harvest of the native Paratalapia being the 15 seater Twin Otter aircraft and were In this case, two parallel fence lines are constructed at Ivoloina continues to grow and raised there has already taken place, on our way back to Tana. The flight went resulting in a ten-yard wide “no lemurs land” corridor evolve under Maya Moore’s capable with many more harvests to come. We as smoothly as such a small plane can between each enclosure to prevent lemur neighbors guidance. While at Ivoloina we visited also visited the Antanetiambo reserve, travel – perhaps thanks to the woman in from fighting through the wire. the Environmental Education Center, which is on property owned by Desiré the front row who had her hands clasped These forested enclosures allow the lemurs to live where Malagasy students are introduced Rabary, who visited DLC several years in prayer, with eyes cast skyward, for the nearly “wild” with their families and social groups in to Madagascar’s unique natural world. ago, when he was in the US to accept a entire flight. acres of Duke Forest. The ability for the DLC to house We toured the tree nursery and visited Seacology conservation award. Visiting both Ivoloina, and especially a large portion of its lemur collection in this way is the new Ivoloina Environmental Training The next day we traveled back to our SAVA project, were very important another feature that makes the Center so unique and Center- with meeting space, a laboratory, Sambava, and, amazingly, had a bit for Anne, as DLC director. No valuable to its researchers and guests. These enclosures and a dormitory. And of course we of free time in which to relax. Our matter how many photos you see, encourage natural behaviors such as foraging and visited the fabulous zoo with its beautiful flight back to Tana the following day or descriptions you read, there is climbing and allow researchers the rare opportunity displays of lemurs and other creatures was out of Antalaha, on the southern absolutely no substitute for seeing it to observe and collect data that can otherwise only be of the eastern rainforest. Anne got the edge of the SAVA. We made the two in person. Erik, Lanto and I certainly collected in the forests of Madagascar. For our guests, opportunity to meet many of the capable hour drive early that morning, but enjoyed showing off the various project touring these enclosures and being able to get within a Malagasy staff who make Ivoloina such a before going to the airport we paid activities. Karl Bates will be writing few feet of the lemurs can be life-changing. successful conservation initiative. At the a visit to a botanical garden called articles about the DLC’s conservation So the next time you visit the DLC and are admiring conclusion of our tour, I think I can say Macolline, which is owned and efforts in Madagascar, for both Duke the lemurs high in the trees, be sure to take notice and that Anne left Ivoloina with a far different operated by Madam Marie Helene. Magazine, and other publications, so appreciate the new fence lines that make it possible. impression than she previously had. We had arranged to meet Marie keep an eye out for alerts about those The next morning we caught a flight to Helene there to discuss the possibility upcoming articles! Looking Ahead to Breeding Season By Andrea Katz, Curator

As the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, our thoughts turn Duke Alumni Travel and Education has just announced they will be organizing a tour to the upcoming breeding season of Madagascar for 11 - 25 October, 2014. The tour will be led by DLC Conservation for the diurnal lemur species (except Coordinator and Madagascar specialist Charlie Welch. Itinerary details available soon sifaka, whose breeding season has on the Lemur Center and Duke Alumni travel websites just ended). This fall-winter season, < http://www.dukealumni.com/learn-travel/wildlife-madagascar-2014>. 11 breeding pairs are planned – NOTE: Duke Alumni tours are open to all, past attendance at Duke is not required! crowned lemurs, blue-eyed black lemurs, mongoose lemurs, ringtailed lemurs and ruffed lemurs. Based on past breeding histories, we’re zoos combined to maintain lemur confident that nine of these pairs population sizes on this scale. will be successful and produce So how do we decide which healthy infants in the spring, while pairs will breed and which females ISLAND OF the other two pairs (mongoose will be on contraception? We lemurs Guadalupe and Pedro and work closely with the national crowned lemurs Set and Ike) include Species Survival Programs and LEMURS: aged animals that may be post- other managed programs of the reproductive. Association of Zoos & Aquariums We carefully consider which (AZA), to evaluate each previous MADAGASCAR pairs will breed in a given year. year’s breeding success across all It’s a nearly continuous process, Duke Lemur Center is proud to be participating institutions. Target based on both the DLC’s animal partnering with IMAX Corporation population sizes are established collection plan and research needs, and Warner Bros. Studios to promote the based on space and resources; as well as the needs of the entire release of Island of Lemurs: Madagascar, these are re-evaluated every five U.S. population for each species. the incredible true story of nature’s years through a comprehensive The overriding goal is the same – to greatest explorers – lemurs! Captured survey. Then we determine how contribute to the survival of lemurs with IMAX® 3D cameras, the film takes many pairs should breed, to through captive management that fat tailed dwarf: 3 (3.0) audiences on a spectacular journey to achieve or maintain the target promotes healthy, genetically diverse the remote and wondrous world of population size for each species. populations that are sustainable for crowned lemurs: 3 (2.1) Madagascar. Lemurs arrived there Best pairings are determined for lemur generations to come. as castaways millions of years demographics and to maximize We can’t breed every lemur every blue eyed lemurs: 3 (2.1) ago and evolved into hundreds of genetic diversity, leading to year. Currently we have nearly 50 diverse species but are now highly recommendations for transfers potentially reproductive females ring-tailed lemurs: 4 (2.2) endangered. Join trailblazing between institutions to establish in the diurnal lemurs, and about scientist Patricia Wright on her new breeding pairs. Additional another 40 in the nocturnal species. mouse lemurs: 5 (2.3) lifelong mission to help these strange factors such as an institution’s If every female gave birth annually, and adorable creatures survive in the husbandry experience and success the DLC colony would double from sifaka: 3 (2.1) modern world. Narrated by Academy in breeding and birth management its current 260 animals to about Award® winner Morgan Freeman, are also considered. And as you 500 animals in two quick years! black and white ruffed: 4 (3.1) Island of Lemurs: Madagascar opens might expect, the DLC gets more Definitely not sustainable in terms in select IMAX theatres April 4, 2014. breeding recommendations, and of housing, staff or our operating Stay tuned for more updates! produces more lemur infants, than budget, as we strive to provide any other institution in the U.S. the best possible care to every So here’s to another fall breeding TOTAL INFANTS animal in our charge. Nor is there season, and all those infants to 2013 birth season: 25 enough quality space in all U.S. come in the spring! Duke Lemur Center What’s a lemur teams with “Mister baby weigh? By Sarah Zehr, DLC Data Manager Lemur” author to

With the recent spate of spring births, I thought it was time to calculate the average birth weight for each of raise money for SAVA the DLC’s 11 breeding species so that we can better monitor the little guys when they’re born. Being science- By Hans Hartvickson minded out here, we track weight in grams rather than pounds or ounces. But I realize that most of you are American- minded and therefore think in pounds or ounces rather than grams. So I thought I’d give you an idea of the infant sizes by comparing them to a few everyday objects that weigh roughly the same amount. During the week of October 14-21, the publisher of the award-winning “Mister Lemur” books will donate $5 for each book sold on www.lemurstore.com to the Duke Lemur Center’s SAVA conservation project. This money will help fund SAVA’s silky sifaka conservation efforts in and around Marojejy National Park. Mister Lemur stories combine concepts from science, math and geography in a fun, rhyming context. They are written by Stanford- educated authors Hans and Jen Hartvickson, who fell in love with lemurs while on a 2006 trip to Madagascar. Hans and Jen now travel the country full-time getting elementary students excited about reading, writing and lemurs!

* “Mister Lemur’s Train of Thought”, a 151- page collection of Shel Silverstein-esque rhymes, won the gold medal for children’s poetry in the 2011 Moonbeam Awards. It is ideal for grades two through five.

* “It Will Take a Lot of Us to Lift a Hippopotamus” features Mister Lemur, Silky and their friends learning a humorous lesson about teamwork while trying to rescue a hippo on a safari. Well-suited to students in grade two and below.

* Get a jump on your Christmas shopping with “The Santa Claus Alarm”, by Mister Lemur’s little sister. The book features an adorable female hero in her quest to finally meet Santa Infants pictured are as follows: 1) Fat-tailed dwarf lemur. 2) Aye-aye. 3) Mouse lemur. 4) Mongoose lemur. Claus. Along the way, she learns that giving can 5) Ring-tailed lemur. 6) Pygmy slow loris. 7) Blue-eyed black lemur. 8) Black and white ruffed lemur. be just as rewarding as receiving. For grades two 9) Coquerel’s sifaka. 10) Crowned lemur. 11) Red-ruffed lemur. and below.

You can learn more about each of these books, and support silky sifaka conservation, by visiting www.lemurstore.com by October 21, 2013. It’s a Ruffed Life: A tale of two Varecia groups By David Haring, Registrar/Photographer I hate to anthropomorphize are just juveniles, beating up on basically two possibilities: she had when it comes to our lemurs, but the males). Since the SSP had a serious injury that prevented sometimes it’s hard not to do so when breeding plans for the girls, they her from climbing down, or she comparing the fortunes of some of were removed from the group in was seriously ill. Finally, 72 our larger social groups. Just like June, 2011 and soon afterwards hours after she was first reported human families, some lemur social shipped to zoos in Kansas City missing, the DLC enlisted the groups seem to thrive and prosper, and Nashville. Carina and the climbing skills of a local tree while others just can’t seem to catch twins were reintroduced to service, and, as a large contingent a break, and slowly decline and fade Alphard and Avior and the still of the staff watched breathlessly, a away. Consider the black and white formidable group of five ruffed heroic tree climber (our hero for ruffed lemur group led by Kizzy lemurs, free-ranged that summer the day!) climbed the 80 feet to (free ranging in NHE 6) compared and the summer of 2012. But then where Cordelia was resting, and to Carina’s red ruffed lemur group in January, 2013, disaster struck: gathered what appeared to be an Special Thanks (free ranging in NHE 4). There are a Alphard was discovered lying exceptionally grateful lemur into lot of similarities between the groups: on his side, barely able to move. his arms, and, without a sign of not only had the Ruffed Lemur SSP Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, protest from the lemur (in fact she to the Sinnot-Armstrong family given recommendations recently for the Vets immediately grounded started licking the sweat off his the adult pairs in each group to breed, him from free-ranging to preserve neck half way down!), carried her for being the DLC’s first but both groups also suffered the his strength. At first he was gently to the ground. Cordelia recent loss of their breeding males. housed in a single cage alongside was rushed to the Vet office and Kizzy’s mate, the legendary Amor, his family, but interactions with although she was dehydrated, ADOPT A LEMUR CHAMPIONS! died 17 May 2013 at the ripe old age the group through the cage wire and diagnosed with a severe case of 32. Carina’s mate, the respected proved to be stressful to the old of vestibular syndrome (which and admired Alphard, died in March, man, so he was pulled and moved made her very dizzy and unable ADOPT A LEMUR RAISED: $29,811 2013 at the age of 24. Strangely to the D wing where he could live to climb), she was surprisingly enough, both males were well into out his days in peace. His health strong, and in a few days was ADOPTED LEMURS: 180 adulthood before they produced their continued to decline and he died well on her way to recovery-- first offspring. The first of Alphard’s in March, 2013. although she still had a bit of a five offspring (all with Carina) was After the death of their lingering head tilt, and her free- born in 2008, and Amor’s first of eight patriarch, Carina’s group luck ranging days with the group were infants (all with Kizzy) was born in continued to decline. One definitely over. May, 2009. glorious April day this spring, Now Carina’s group had In May, 2011 Carina’s group was technicians grew concerned dwindled to three: Carina, Avior DLC research by perhaps at its peak: Carina had just when Cordelia did not show up and Pandora, yet still their ill given birth to twin females Cordelia at feeding time. A search party fortunes continued! Just over a the numbers and Pandora, in the triplex, while finally located her close to the top month after Cordelia’s illness, her *July 2012-June 2013 Alphard and his subadult offspring of mature loblolly pine, barely big brother Avior decided he was # researchers # projects (male Avior and females Hydra and visible ( she was at least 80 feet going to go on a Walkabout. We Faculty/Professionals/PostDocs 28 28 Lyra) continued to free-range in the above the ground!). Concern are not sure how he escaped from Graduate Students 23 23 huge 14 acres of mature woodlands mounted over the next two days NHE 4, but early on a Friday Undergraduate Students 9 9 that comprise NHE 4. The goal was when Cordelia refused to budge morning before the Memorial Day to introduce Carina and her infants an inch. In the decades that weekend, a passing motorist saw University classes (n=11) 102 unk to the free-rangers, and to have the lemurs have free-ranged at the him dashing across Cornwallis High School Students 2 2 spectacular group of seven free- DLC, this particular predicament Road, a quarter mile from the Research Assistants 19 - ranging by summer, but this never had never occurred: a forest Lemur Center, and, thankfully, came to pass. Oddly, Avior started dwelling lemur getting stuck reported the lemur sighting to DLC Research Interns 18 15 to act aggressively towards his sisters in (or for some reason refusing the local authorities. Alerted, DLC Work Study Students 5 1 (usually it is the females, even if they to descend) a tree! There were the Lemur Center staff sprang TOTAL 206 78 It’s a strange but true into action: armed with nets, on the other. When the new NHE 4 phenomenon. All too often radio tracking receivers and fence is finally in place, Carina and we overlook wonderful raisins, a large percentage of the Pandora might free-range for the resources that are in our own technical staff set out to comb remainder of the warm season, but communities, and I believe the vast swampy, wilderness- that’s probably it for their free-range that one of those resources like section of Duke Forest days. Most likely Carina will not be is the Duke Lemur Center. near the point where Avior was recommended for further breeding, As a language arts teacher, To all our seen crossing the road. We’re so it is likely that the group of two I’ve planned field trips for generous not sure what he was up to: will be replaced in NHE 4 by a more my students to visit Duke donors, was he headed to the beach vibrant, and dare I say it, successful Lemur Center for the past for the holiday weekend, or group of ruffed lemurs, and Carina 17 years. I’ve watched as we say in search of another group will have to live out her days in a new buildings have been THANK of ruffed lemurs to join? A conventional indoor/outdoor cage. constructed, animals have morning of searching through Sad, but what can you say, it’s a been added or (sadly) lost, YOU! the forest resulted only in tick jungle out here! into space, ending with a crash and I’ve seen new tour bites too numerous to count, Meanwhile, on the other side of the landing into a slender branch ideas develop and grow. soggy feet, and the arrival of a Lemur Center, the saga of Kizzy’s of the neighboring tree, all in a I’ve always been in awe of local TV station eager to report group since the death of Amor, has fashion that would surely make the rich resource that is the the latest news on the escaped been anything but tragic. Five days their old man smile. Or at least Lemur Center. As research lemur. After a break for water before Amor died on May 17th, the ruffed lemur equivalent of a is an important part of the and a change into dry footwear, Kizzy gave birth to strapping twin smile: a brief mob call perhaps? 7th grade Language Arts a revised search strategy was boys, Rees and Amor Jr. The day On a somewhat somber note curriculum, my students planned. Just as the Lemur before the births, Amor had been I just have to add that this is each select a lemur to Center search party of around a free-ranging in the beautiful peak of probably the peak for Kizzy’s research and write about. dozen intrepid technicians was springtime forest (Kizzy was kept in group, at least in terms of After completing this task, about to return to the forest, the building pre-delivery) with his numbers of animals. Curator they then create 3-D models the very best news possible sons Albert and Saunders (twins born Andrea Katz has wisely deciding of their particular lemur, was announced: an observant June, 2011), Magellan (born May, that the group (now six males and the unit culminates and lemur-savvy resident 2010) and Eros Jr (born May 2009). I and Kizzy) is getting too big with a visit to the Duke of the nearby Loch Nora won’t go so far as to say Amor died to remain stable for long (part Lemur Center. The tour neighborhood had spotted surrounded by his family (neither of the reason they have stayed provides students with a Avior venturing into his garage juvenile male nor female ruffed lemur together so long is surely due deeper understanding of (perhaps searching for where offspring are particularly nice to their to the preponderance of male lemurs and their plight, but the monkey chow was stored?), sires), but certainly his life just before offspring, females just tend to it also makes them aware and this man (our hero for the death was a lot more pleasant than cause more trouble). In addition, of how lucky they are to day!) closed the garage door that of poor Alphard’s. consideration must be given to have the Lemur Center thus trapping the lemur, and A month or so after giving birth, the fact that all are valuable to close by. After all, where immediately called the Center. Kizzy and her infants were gradually the SSP. So Albert and Saunders else besides Madagascar Less than an hour later, Avior introduced to the four young boys, will be removed from the group can you go in this world to was safe and sound in the Vet and everyone has been getting along this fall and shipped to the Point see such a collection of rare exam room (the Vets declared great since then (with absolutely Defiance Zoo in Washington and precious lemurs? What him completely unharmed), zero drama: no walkabouts, no State to set up a new breeding other groups are working so savoring some bananas and bouts of paralysis in the tree tops!). group. Kizzy is also not pointedly with Madagascar monkey chow and perhaps Just in the last few weeks Rees and recommended to breed this year. to aid and protect these wondering what the heck he Amor Jr. have ventured out into But not to worry! This doesn’t endangered or vulnerable had been thinking. Needless the wilds of NHE 6 from the safety mean that Kizzy’s group will creatures? It has been to say, his free-ranging days of Ata Aly for the first time, and wind up like Carina’s! Certainly my pleasure to introduce were over. From then on until although the young twins are not Kizzy, Amor Jr, Rees , Magellan seventh graders each year to this day, the once proud group yet comfortable in the forest, you and Eros Jr. will continue to the invaluable resource that sits somewhat forlornly (or can see it is just a matter of time captivate and entertain all those is the Duke Lemur Center. is that just my imagination?) before both are traveling through fortunate enough to see them in in their two triplex cages: the the trees in that form of locomotion the forests of NHE 6 (right by

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