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Ring-tailed lemur mother carrying her twins
A ring-tailed lemur mother carrying her twins. Research at the Duke University Lemur Center
Found that a lemur’s pregnancy hormones affect her daughter’s aggression later in life.
[Research supported by National Science Foundation grants BCS 0409367, IOS 0719003, BCS 1749465 and SBE 7837176.]
Read more in the Duke University news story Study finds potential benefits of wildlife-livestock coexistence in East Africa. (Date image taken: May 2016; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Nov. 21, 2019)
Credit: David Haring/Duke Lemur Center
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