Pulling roots and shoots with lemurs

Today was our first Duke Lemur Center work-day of the semester. It was a nice group of Duke and UNC students. We weeded in one of the natural habitat enclosure (pulling roots and shoots that were crawling on the fence line). Then the ring-tailed lemur group came to see what we were doing.

Our next work-day is planned for Saturday Oct 30. The plan is to work on building artificial vines that will go in the indoor lemur enclosures. If you are interested in joining us for that day, please email us at nc.roots.shoots@gmail.com.

The Duke Lemur Center is a truly amazing place. It holds the largest population of lemurs anywhere outside of Madagascar. Madagascar is the only place lemurs are found in the wild, and there are many other plants and animals that are endemic to (found only in) Madagascar. Sadly over 90% of the original habitat there has been destroyed by humans...