Sentences with phrase «lemur center»

Duke Lemur Center faces baby boom The stork came through for the Duke Lemur Center this year — and how!

«Older people in Madagascar talk about how much drier and hotter it is now than when they were children,» said study co-author Anne Yoder, director of the Duke Lemur Center.

Their bodies are cold, they are utterly still and they take a breath only once every several minutes or so,» said co-author Anne Yoder, director of the Duke Lemur Center.

«Exactly what triggers hibernation is still an open question,» said lead author Marina Blanco a postdoctoral researcher at the Duke Lemur Center.

Led by Kulahci, the researchers studied the vocal interactions and grooming networks of various groups of ringtailed lemurs living at Duke University's Lemur Center and on St. Catherines Island in Georgia.

I think people will buy it,» says Anne Yoder, an evolutionary biologist at Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina.

The nearest airport is Raleigh - Durham International Airport, which is less than 20 miles from the Lemur Center.

First author Ipek Kulahci spent several years studying ring - tailed lemurs housed at the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina and the St. Catherines Island Lemur Program in Georgia.

They looked at a giant ruffed lemur, a baboon lemur, a koala lemur and two sloth lemurs — all housed in the collections at the University of Antananarivo and the Duke Lemur Center at Duke University.

Duke Lemur Center veterinarians soon pinpointed the cause of his illness: Eugenius tested positive for Cryptosporidium, a microscopic intestinal parasite known to affect people, pets, livestock and wildlife worldwide.

Not exact matches

All of the infected animals are sifakas — the only lemur species out of 17 at the center known to fall prey to the parasite — and most of them were under age five when they got sick.

Lemurs — small, bushy - tailed primates — populate a large habitat at the center of the exhibit.