At Long Last Lemurs

At a community-run preserve near Andasibe, Madagascar, a guide has earned this indri's trust, so we got to see her close up . . . 

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 . . . very close up.

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The next day, at a national park nearby, diademed sifakas put on quite a show.

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We also saw some lemurs who were too shy or too fast to photograph. Rie and Christian--our guide the first day--are looking for common brown lemurs here. We also saw bamboo lemurs and, on a night hike, some mouse lemurs.

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 Here's Christian at the native plant nursery his organization runs.

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And here’s Rémi, our guide on the second day.

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 We also saw all kinds of other creatures great and small, like this nose-horned chameleon,

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and tiny frogs,

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a giraffe-necked weevil,

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a poisonous spider,

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and all kinds of plants we'd never seen before.

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And with luck, there's more to come. Stay tuned!