This is one of my favorite enrichment items for lemurs. We hang these small bags on the branches and put just a few pieces of dried fruit in each one. It’s quite cute to watch them go through the bag. I tried to get a picture of each of our 6 lemurs using their enrichment. Read more
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Lemur Tracking Drill
We recently had a Lemur Tracking Drill. Sherry informed us that two “lemurs” were hidden around campus and we had an hour to find them. Off we went… We then decided to go out to the parking lot since our signal was pointing us in that direction. Quickly there after, we found the first lemur in a tree. After feeling successful about finding the first lemur so quickly we decided to split up at the boardwalk. Sarah and I headedRead more
10 mins with the Ring Tailed Lemurs
After lunch everyday we head out to our respective areas and do afternoon checks. The ring-tailed lemurs have been enjoying their outside exhibit. I snapped some pictures during check recently. Sometimes all they do is sleep and sometimes they are climbing trees this is what they were doing on this particular day…Read more
Lemur Training Update
The red ruffed lemurs have been off exhibit since December. We have just a couple of weeks left until it is warm enough for the ring tailed lemurs to be outside during the day and the red ruffed lemurs to move upstairs, on exhibit. Here is where we were last time I updated about training- click here. While our focus was going to be crate training we also added the behavior of station. Station is a way to 1)Read more
QuikPost: Duke Lemur Center
Check out the Duke Lemur Center’s blog featuring a documentary called Madagascar, Lemurs, and Spies which focuses on silky sifaka and learn a little more about habitat destruction.Read more