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I'd like to remind people who are looking for interesting and informative
educational and/or recreational opportunities in central North Carolina
that the Primate Center, located at Duke University, is unique on the
surface of the Earth in its mission to preserve through study and breeding
the severely endangered prosimian mammals such as lemurs, tarsiers,
galagoes, pottoes, lorises, and bushbabies. 

DUPC has approximately 500 endangered prosimians on its acreage in Duke
Forest, and is open for tours by appointment.  Their work is invaluable
and has been featured in many magazines, newspapers, and television shows
as well as in the pages of scientific journals. 

DUPC offers tours during the week and on Saturday mornings -- but please,
call in advance.  Tours are performed by trained volunteer docents who
must be aware that you are coming in order to have sufficient staff on
hand.  Tours can be arranged by calling 489-3364 during the week and
asking to speak to someone about a tour. 

If you have children in school, DUPC also conducts educational programs at
elementary schools for the kids, and offers group rates for schools to
tour DUPC.  It's an opportunity no child in the area should miss. 

DUPC is only partially supported by Duke University funding; the Center
also receives grants from agencies such as the National Science Foundation
and donations from organizations, groups, and private individuals. 
Donations make up a large chunk of the DUPC budget and are greatly
appreciated. 

If you find yourself wondering what to give a friend or loved one this
Christmas, why not consider the Duke University Primate Center Adopt-A-
Lemur program?  Adopt-A-Lemur is a program through which participants can
pay an amount pegged to the relative cost of care and feeding of an animal
for a year (bushbabies are cheaper to adopt than aye-ayes, in other words)
and in return receive a photo, an adoption certificate, a letter about the
animal, and a pass to visit the animal on a free tour of the Primate
Center.  Adoptions cost as little as $50 per year and, if you're really
enamored of the hairy li'l varmints, as much as $250 per year.  DUPC has
even been known to arrange adoptions of mated pairs of animals as wedding
or anniversary gifts. 

You can get information on the Adopt-A-Lemur program by consulting
http://www.dupc.org/adopt.html on the World Wide Web, by emailing me, or
by calling the Primate Center at 489-3364 to ask for information.  The Web
page has color photos of each species of animal that's available for
adoption in order to help you choose which species you'd be interested in
adopting. 

If you're not interested in adopting a lemur but would like to help the
Center and still find something useful or different to give as a Christmas
or Hannukkah gift, the Center's gift shop includes this year the
first-ever full-color DUPC wall calendars, showing a different species of
lemur each month, as well as t-shirts, mugs, caps, and posters.  Visit the
Primate Center to see the full array of souvenirs available. 

You can make a difference.  Help DUPC and you help thousands of lemurs 
and other prosimians around the world.

The DUPC web site is located at http://www.dupc.org/index.html.

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