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收藏了世界上最大和最多样化的濒危灵长类动物。 该中心专注于马达加斯加的狐猴，所有这些都是极度濒危的。 由于狐猴和人类在进化上的接近，对狐猴的生物学研究可以为我们了解人类生物学提供信息。 DLC是对灵长类动物进行非侵入性研究的模型。 DLC的研究人员使用先进的技术，允许在不伤害动物的情况下收集不同生物学科的数据，包括基因组学，病毒学，认知，生物力学，生理学，行为和生态学。杜克狐猴中心是世界上唯一一个可以随时获得狐猴进行研究的地方，在那里收集了今天和40年历史上收集的生物样本，医疗记录和其他数据，允许对灵长类动物比较生物学进行详细调查。外展和教育是DLC使命的关键方面。 DLC服务于多个教育社区，包括公众，K-12，本科生，研究生和研究生。 在过去五年中，该中心平均每年接待13 000多名游客，其中K-12每年接待4 000多名游客，大学生图尔斯参观团接待多达2 400名游客。 随着我们的网站（http：//lemur.duke.edu/）最近的增强，DLC努力成为世界？它是与濒危灵长类动物生物学和保护相关的远程学习的领导者。

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.