“I decided that I never wanted to leave,” Lynch said. In this edition of “A Duke Workday,” learn more about Lynch and the work that is required to care for lemurs in Durham and abroad. Got a ...

Williams admits the first few years were tough. For a decade she was the only veterinarian on staff, taking care of 450-plus animals and up to 20 or more species. A lemur who wasn’t eating or an ...

“People don’t take care of them,” Trieder said ... Trieder has 64 from a pet lemur attack in 2010. But experts say lemurs aren’t entirely to blame for their hostile behavior.

Mouse lemurs are protected from hunting, but they are still captured for the exotic pet trade. They are most threatened by loss of the limited woodland habitat of their Madagascar home.