Photo safari – Duke Lemur Centre

By Ed Yong | January 17, 2011 7:49 am

On Friday, I visited the Duke Lemur Centre, as part of the Science Online 2011 conference. Given that it was winter, we didn’t get to see the lemurs out and about, but even indoors, they were fun to watch.

Behold the terrible Lemurberus
Slightly tragic sifaka hand
Something about racial harmony yadda yadda
Ring-tailed lemurs
That leg shouldn't go there
The world's most useless field guide
Yeah, well, you work in an office and I get fed every day. Who's in
Brian makes a friend
Ruffed lemur
Ruffed lemur close-up
A net for lemurs. Or Mothra. Probably lemurs. WHO KNOWS?
Show me on the puppet where the lemur touched you, Jason
Lemur ruins perfectly nice shot of Colin Schultz
RT @Ida HA LOLZ YES I IZ LEMUR. EPIC FAIL

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Comments (4)

  1. Lemur plays the cello.

    [Ha! Amazing - Ed]

  2. Chew

    Who is this Duke Le’mur guy? I thought the French have Counts, not Dukes?

    That’s what I said to myself when I read the headline.

  3. davem

    You’ll need the nocturnal field guide. At night, what you do is to have a head torch on, and look around. Very soon, you will see the lemurs’ eyes reflecting the light back to you. Walk up to lemur (within a few feet, usually – although a mouse lemur actually leaped onto my shoulder), and identify at leisure.

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