I was feeding the lemurs a while ago, spreading their food around the exhibit on the rocks, the branches and in crooks of trees, and nearly plopped a piece of banana -smeared chow onto this little guy! He’s a gray tree frog. I had the camera with me, and thought I should get a shot of how well he camouflages himself. I had already let the lemurs into the exhibit, and Satyrus was following me around, trying to anticipate myRead more
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Durham Yard Sale
YARD SALE! supporting the NC Piedmont AAZK SATURDAY JULY 18th 7:00am-11:00 at the Picnic Dome across from the Museum of Life and Science A few of the keepers here at the museum have joined together with some of the keepers (or techs, as they’re called) at the Duke Lemur Center, to form a local chapter of the American Association of Zookeepers (AAZK). The AAZK is a non-profit, volunteer organization of professional zookeepers and other persons dedicated to professional animal careRead more
Madagascar animals
Cassandra (a Ringtail Lemur) explores her exhibit I think our six lemurs here at the Museum are pretty good ambassadors of their species. But if watching and learning about them hasn’t been enough to make you want to support habitat conservation in Madagascar, click here for another couple hundred of reasons.Read more
Buildin’ Stuff
If it looks like it’s going to be a fairly normal week (which rarely happens, mind you), then there’s usually time for some unplanned project time. A “fairly normal” week would include: normal staffing (no one out sick, out on vacation, or otherwise unable to perform as usual), no holidays, no hurricanes/tornadoes/snowstorms/torrential downpours, no huge planned projects or deliveries or special cleans requiring a lot of the keepers, no special events at the Museum (such as Birdapalooza or Wild AboutRead more
Lemur TB drugs
I mentioned in a recent post about some phone calls I received, and I told you I would fill you in about my “restricted drug purchase” story. Here’s the story in brief. I order the needed TB test about a month before the lemurs’ physicals. I called to order and was told they no longer carried it. No worries, I called our friends at the Duke Lemur Center and asked them where they got their Tuberculin OT from. They toldRead more
Creature Feature: Lycus the ring-tailed lemur
Lycus is one of the oldest lemurs we have, and is a favorite among some of the keepers. He was born at the Duke Lemur Center in March of 1985, and came to live at the museum in October of 2005. He lives with two other ring-tailed lemurs, Cassandra and her son Satyrus. It is hard to tell the three apart, so they all have different colored bands on their tracking collars. But Lycus is the easiest to tell apartRead more