Aye-aye Pod
by Duke Lemur Center
Latest episode
A Busy Time in Primate Evolution: Spring 2026
A Busy Time in Primate Evolution: Spring 2026
About this podcast
The official podcast of the Duke Lemur Center. Your hosts, Education Programs Manager Megan McGrath and DLC Museum of Natural History Curator Matt Borths, Ph.D., are venturing into all things lemur: science, research, conservation, husbandry, Madagascar, and so much more! Each mini-season will be focused on a particular subject, and each episode will include discussions and interviews with experts to learn as much as we can about these amazing primates together.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 29 episodes
- A Busy Time in Primate Evolution: Spring 2026 · 25 minDescription: Over the last few years, Aye-aye Pod co-host Matt Borths has been part of a paleontology team exploring an exciting new fossil site called Topernawi, which is near…
- A Creature That Has a Superpower: Winter 2026 · 22 minIn this episode of Aye-aye Pod, we discuss a truly incredible little lemur with evolutionary superpowers: the fat-tailed dwarf lemur! Dwarf lemurs are the only members of our…
- Rules for Free-ranging: Fall 2025 · 34 minAye-aye Pod is back! In this episode, we cover what’s kept us away, what you can expect in future episodes, and what happens at the Duke Lemur Center as we transition into cooler…
- S4E7 You Have to Work with People: A Lemur Reintroduction Story · 31 minWith nearly 40 years of experience working in Madagascar conservation (15 of which were spent living in Madagascar), Charlie Welch has an incredible wealth of wisdom to share. In…
- S4E6 Writing the History of My Country: Finding Extinct Lemurs · 15 minThe fossil record of Madagascar is incredible. There are unicorn-horned meat-eating dinosaurs, colossal flightless birds, and lemurs the size of gorillas. Dr. Noromamy…
- S4E5 Tromping Around in Madagascar: Seed Dispersal and Lemurs · 18 minForests are complicated places, and the species inhabiting forests are dependent on each other in a complex network that we call ecology. Camille Desisto is an ecologist and…
- S4E4 How We Problem Solve: Ruffed Lemur Cognition · 23 minSo how smart are lemurs, exactly? How do we even start to figure that out? Meet Ray Vagell, researcher and graduate student from Texas State University who uses SMARTA (a…
- S4E3 Lemur Kindergarten: Social Dynamics in Ruffed Lemurs · 23 minDr. Andrea Baden and her team have spent a lot of time in the rainforests of eastern Madagascar learning about the social lives of ruffed lemurs. In this episode, she shares why…
- S4E2 I Follow the Lemurs: Ruffed Lemur Husbandry · 16 minThis week, we’re chatting with one of our wonderful colleagues Madison Armand about her role as a primate technician (our version of a zookeeper here at the Duke Lemur Center)…
- S4E1 Beautiful Beards: Meet the Ruffed Lemurs · 29 minThis season we’re leaping into the world of ruffed lemurs – beautiful lemurs with big personalities. In this episode, we discuss the basics of the two species in the Varecia…
- S3E7 – Keep Doing the Hard Work · 14 minWe are wrapping up our sifaka season with Malagasy scientist and conservationist, Mamy Razafitsalama. Mamy’s work in and around Ankarafantsika National Park, which serves as…
- S3E6 – Analyzing the Genomes · 20 minSifakas are beautifully adapted to their environment. Dr. Elaine Guevara studies the source of these adaptations in the genetic code of sifakas (and other primates). Elaine…
- S3E5 – Thinking Long-term · 21 minWhy don’t you see sifakas in most zoos across the US? How do we plan which sifaka have babies, and where those babies will live? DLC Animal Curator Britt Keith not only manages…
- S3E4 – Bouncy… Like Tigger · 25 minLemurs can really move. Like jumping-dozens-of-feet-from-tree-to-tree move. Like Tigger on a trampoline move. Dr. Gabe Yapuncich is a researcher at Duke University who is…
- S3E3 – The Magic Hour · 22 minEver wondered what a lemur that is adapted to conditions across the world in Madagascar eats in the forests of North Carolina? Dr. Lydia Greene wondered that very same thing, and…
- S3E2 – A Lot of Time and Attention · 19 minWho better to open this season’s interviews than someone who has spent over a decade caring for Coquerel’s sifakas? Melanie Currie has been a primate technician (AKA animal…
- S3E1 – The Dancing Lemur · 21 minWelcome to season three of Aye-aye Pod. We’re finally getting to the lemur that everyone falls in love with when they visit the Duke Lemur Center: sifakas! We’ll introduce you to…
- S2E5 – So Many Extinct Lemurs · 16 minIn the final episode of our season on ring-tailed lemurs, Matt and Megan are joined by biological anthropologist, paleontologist, and primatologist Dr. Laurie Godfrey. Laurie’s…
- S2E4 – What We Have to Do · 16 minIf you’ve read Allison Jolly’s quintessential book Lords and Lemurs, or perhaps you’ve watched the Island of the Lemurs IMAX film, then you already know this week’s guest. Matt…
- S2E3 – A Day in the Life · 22 minWhat does it take to care for ring-tailed lemurs a world away from their native Madagascar? Lead Primate Technician Danielle Lynch joins us to discuss the complexities of caring…
