Lemur Conservation Foundation

Infobox Non-profit
Non-profit_name = Lemur Conservation Foundation
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Non-profit_type = 501(c)(3)
founded_date = 1996
founder = Penelope Bodry-Sanders
location = Myakka City, FL
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key_people = Penelope Bodry-Sanders, Executive Director; Monica Mogilewsky, Program Manager
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product = Lemur Conservation
focus = Preserve and conserve the primates of Madagascar
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num_employees = 4
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homepage = http://www.lemurreserve.org/
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The Lemur Conservation Foundation (LCF) is a small American non-profit organization that works closely with the Duke Lemur Center, LCF Scientific Advisory Council (including Dr. Ian Tattersall), the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Prosimian Taxon Advisory Group (TAG), and the Species Survival Plan (SSP) coordinators.cite web | url = http://www.lemurreserve.org/ | title = Lemur Conservation Foundation | accessdate=2008-09-23 | publisher = Lemur Conservation Foundation | date = 2008-07-29] Its lemur reserve in Mayakka City, FL houses Ring-tailed Lemurs, Red-fronted Brown Lemurs, White-headed Lemurs, Eastern Lesser Bamboo Lemurs, Mongoose lemurs, Red ruffed lemurs, Common Brown Lemurs and Sanford's Lemurs. Its goals include conservation (including captive breeding and reintroduction), research, and education.cite web | url = http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/idp/idp/entry/498 | title = Lemur Conservation Foundation | accessdate=2008-09-23 | publisher = Primate Info Net | date = 2006-07-25]

Mission

"The Lemur Conservation Foundation (LCF) is a small non-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation and conservation of the primates of Madagascar through captive breeding, scientific research, education, and reintroduction."

Myakka City Lemur Reserve

The 90-acre Myakka City Lemur Reserve, which opened in 1999, is an AZA accredited facilitycite web | url = http://www.aza.org/Accreditation/CertList/index.html | title = AZA Certified Related Facilities | accessdate=2008-09-23 | publisher = Association of Zoos and Aquariums |date=March 2008] that is located in Manatee County, Florida. There are two forested 13-acre+ free-range enclosures and the remaining acres currently serve as a buffer zone for the reserve. Two buildings act as indoor/outdoor enclosures: the "Reed and Barbara Toomey Lemur Pavilion" and the "Marilyn K. North Lemur Lodge". The "Mianatra Center for Lemur Studies" and the "Anne & Walter Bladstrom Library" are also located at this facility and serve as an on-site educational resource.

Tampolo Forest Reserve

The Lemur Conservation Foundation is partnered with the Tampolo Forest Station, a small reserve in the 1700-acre forest of Tampolo in Madagascar.

Training and research opportunities

The facility is open to academic professionals and college-level students for behavioral and other non-surgical research. There are two six-month internships offered in animal husbandry and field methods.

Research on lemur cognition and has been performed at the Myakka City Lemur Reserve and published in peer-reviewed academic journals. The studies showed that lemurs can understand basic arithmetic operationscite journal | first = Laurie R. | last = Santos | coauthors = Barnes, Jennifer L., & Mahajan, Neha | title = Expectations about numerical events in four lemur species (Eulemur fulvus, Eulemur mongoz, Lemur catta and Varecia rubra) | journal = Animal Cognition | volume = 8 | year = 2005 | pages = 253–262 | url = http://www.yale.edu/monkeylab/Main/Publications_files/santosetal.lemurnumber.pdf | format = PDF Reprint | doi = 10.1007/s10071-005-0252-4] and will preferentially select tools based on their functional qualities (e.g., tool orientation, ease of use) instead of tools with nonfunctional features (e.g., color, texture), despite not being known to use tools in the wild.cite journal | first = Laurie R. | last = Santos | coauthors = Mahajan, Neha, & Barens, Jennifer L. | title = How Prosimian Primates Represent Tools: Experiments With Two Lemur Species (Eulemur fulvus and Lemur catta) | journal = Journal of Comparative Psychology | volume = 119 | year = 2005 | issue = 4 | pages = 394–403 | url = http://www.yale.edu/monkeylab/Main/Publications_files/santosetal.lemurtools.jcp.pdf | format = PDF Reprint | doi = 10.1037/0735-7036.119.4.394]

Publications

The Lemur Conservation Foundation releases annual reports and a semiannual newsletter, called "Lemur Latitudes".

ee also

*Madagascar Fauna Group

References

External links

* [http://www.lemurreserve.org/ Lemur Conservation Foundation - Official site]