Learning to ‘Speak Lemur’: Fulbright Fellow Carly Batist Will Go to Madagascar to Study and Help Protect a Critically Endangered Species
Carly Batist and a black-and-white ruffed lemur (Photos courtesy of Batist)
By Lida Tunesi
Ph.D. candidate
Carly Batist (Anthropology (Biological)) received a 2021–2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to research the vocalizations of black-and-white ruffed lemurs in Madagascar.
Or, as she told The Graduate Center in an interview, “I’m essentially trying to speak lemur.”
With her adviser Professor
Andrea Baden (GC/Hunter, Anthropology, Biology) Batist investigates how the lemurs’ calls facilitate their social and reproductive strategies. Some of this work takes place at the Centre ValBio research station in Madagascar, which Graduate Center alumna Patricia Chapple Wright (Ph.D. ’85) helped establish in 2002.
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