Raymond Vagell

I recently recorded a podcast 🎙️ with Chimp Chat on YouTube discussing my childhood growing up around primates 🐒 in Ipoh, Perak (Malaysia) to earning my PhD in Applied Anthropology at Texas State University in the Texas State Department of Anthropology, focusing on my work in primate (lemur) cognition, enrichment, and welfare at Duke Lemur Center and my primate sanctuary work at Primarily Primates Inc. I also talked about pizza 🍕 and my fur babies 🐶 🐱. And yes, I am Team

Conference presentations

Graduated with a Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology. What's next?

We interrupt you for this public service announcement: I have successfully defended my dissertation!

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Brief stop at Texas last weekend to represent my department and lab #PruetzLab for the annual Texas Association of Biological...

Aye-aye Pod is the official podcast of the Duke Lemur Center (DLC). Hosted by Education Programs Manager Megan McGrath and DLC Museum of...

¿Qué tal? The American Society of Primatologists 2024 was held in Cancun, Mexico this year. Grateful to be there to share the science...

Feels great to be back at American Society of Primatologists (ASP) after a 3-year hiatus from the COVID pandemic. This year's location...

The 2022 Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists (TABA) conference is my first in-person conference since the start of the...

Presented two talks at ASP this year. Abstracts for both talks are linked below. Hand Preference in Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia spp.) When...

Presented a talk on ruffed lemur contrafreeloading with SMARTA last week at Behaviour 2019. The abstract for the talk can be found on...

The SMARTA team was at Duke Lemur Center's Summer Lemurpalooza for science outreach. We presented our SMARTA color vision research to the...