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Lemurs In 3-D

lemur with white head and body, brown arms and dark facial markings
David Haring
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http://lemur.duke.edu

Sixty-five million years ago, ancestors of lemurs journeyed from Africa to Madagascar on a raft of vegetation. This explanation for their arrival, now widely accepted, was the dissertation of , director of the . It is also the subject of a new IMAX movie, "." Many of the lemurs that star in the film are Durham residents who were trained locally by behavioral manager Meg Dye. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with Anne Yoder and Meg Dye.

http://youtu.be/m0wNff-Fl4Y

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.