LSCBR: Continued Support of the Duke Lemur Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History

该项目将为杜克狐猴中心(DLC)提供部分核心支持。DLC拥有世界上最大、最多样化的濒危灵长类物种。该中心专注于马达加斯加的狐猴，所有这些狐猴都是极度濒危的物种。由于狐猴和人类在进化上非常接近，对狐猴的生物学研究可以帮助我们了解人类生物学。DLC是对灵长类动物进行非侵入性研究的模型。DLC的研究人员使用尖端技术，在不损害动物的情况下收集不同生物学学科的数据，范围从基因组学、病毒学、认知、生物力学、生理学、行为学和生态学。杜克狐猴中心是世界上唯一一个可以随时对狐猴进行研究的地方，在这里，今天收集的生物样本、医疗记录和其他数据，以及它40年的历史，可以对灵长类比较生物学进行详细的研究。宣传和教育是DLC任务的关键方面。DLC服务于多个教育社区，包括普通公众、K-12、本科生、研究生和研究生。在过去的五年中，该中心平均每年接待超过13,000名游客，其中K-12包括每年超过4,000名游客，大学生旅游包括多达2,400名游客。通过最近对我们网站(http://lemur.duke.edu/)，)的改进，DLC努力成为世界上与濒危灵长类生物学和保护有关的远程学习的领导者S。

This project will provide a portion of the core support for the Duke Lemur Center (DLC). The DLC houses the largest and most diverse collection of endangered primates in the world. The Center focuses on lemurs from Madagascar, all of which are critically endangered. Due to the close evolutionary proximity of lemurs and humans, biological study of lemurs can inform our understanding of human biology. The DLC serves as a model for noninvasive research on primates. Researchers at the DLC use sophisticated technologies that allow for data collection without harm to the animals in diverse biological disciplines, ranging from genomics, virology, cognition, biomechanics, physiology, behavior, and ecology. The Duke Lemur Center is the only place in the world where lemurs are readily available for study and where biological samples, medical records, and other data, collected today and over its 40-year history, allow for detailed investigations of primate comparative biology.Outreach and education are critical aspects of the DLC mission. The DLC serves multiple educational communities, including the general public, K-12, undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate. In the past five years, the Center has hosted an average of more than 13,000 visitors per year, with K-12 comprising more than 4,000 of these visitors in a given year and college student tours comprising up to 2,400 visitors. With recent enhancements to our web site (http://lemur.duke.edu/), the DLC strives to become the world?s leader in long-distance learning relating to endangered primate biology and conservation.