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Want To Hang Out With Lemurs? Duke Lemur Center Invites Visitors

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A Coquerel's Sifaka lemur at the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

The Coquerel's Sifaka lemur is the flagship species of the Duke Lemur Center. The center owns all captive animals of this species.

Ring-tailed lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

Lemurs are free to roam the woods in certain areas during warm months, and tours allow people to get within inches of them.

Duke Lemur Center Education Specialist Christ Smith feeds a ring-tailed lemur.

Credit Laura Candler

Education specialist Chris Smith talks to thousands of people a year about the primates. Here, he feeds a ring-tailed lemur a raisin.

Credit Laura Candler

Duke Lemur Center keeps about 250 lemurs, and has an additional 118 on loan to other institutions. Mack Deschamps is a lemur technician.

Jovian, a Coquerel's Sifaka lemur who played Zoboomafu in the popoular PBS series.

Credit Laura Candler

The most famous lemur at the center is Jovian, who starred in the popular television program Zoboomafoo. Jovian is 20 years old.

A lemur's tail, trimmed for identification, at the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

Zookeepers trim certain lemurs' tails in order to identify them.

Credit Laura Candler

Sprite, named after the soft drink, looks for food. Her tail suffered an injury and had to be amputated earlier this year.

Name tags for lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

Each troop of lemurs is named after a certain theme. This one is soft drinks.

Blue-eyed black lemurs are a rare species at the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

The Center has about 20 different species of lemurs, including the rare blue-eyed black. This female called West recently gave birth to baby Hiddleston, who clings to her back most of the time.

A school group visits the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

School groups like this one frequent the center to learn about the animals.

Illustrations by children who've visited the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

The Center receives 17,000 visitors a year. This walkway is lined with illustrations from some of its younger visitors.

By Laura Candler

A Walking with Lemurs tour at the Duke Lemur Center might just seem like an ordinary walk through the woods at first. But at the rustle of a food bucket, tiny, energetic animals begin to descend from the treetops, and you know you’re not walking in any normal forest. Lemurs zip past you at will, some of them with tiny infants clinging to their backs, and there are no barriers between you and the furry primates.

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Wed May 8, 2013

Duke Identifies Shortcomings In HIV Vaccine

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HIV microscope image

By Will Michaels

Researchers at Duke University are using a flaw in an HIV vaccine in order to develop new formulas to fight off the virus.