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| Selfies with a black and white ruffed lemur |
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| Lemur Island canoe trip to see golden sifaka |
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| Ringtail or maki lemurs are so iconic |
It took 28 hours of travel to reach Madagascar's capital Antananarivo after midnight. After a few hours sleep, we drove four hours east to the Andasibe municipality, and by that afternoon we had started walking through the rainforest of the VOIMMA Park community reserve looking for lemurs.
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| Diadem sifaka in the wild |
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| Indiri, the biggest lemur |
Our first sighting were common brown lemurs jumping through trees across a river like giant, charismatic squirrels - so glad we brought binoculars! Soon after, we found the biggest lemur of all, the black and white indiri. Also in the park, we found a frog and a bright chameleon.
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| Mouse lemurs only come out at night |
Later that evening we did a night walk along the road and found three Goodman's mouse lemurs, the smallest primate in the world! Other nocturnal creatures included a gecko, small chameleons, frogs, blue-headed bird, and a tenrec crossing the road.
The following day at Mantadia Park, we found all four local lemurs - common brown, indiri (including a baby!), diadem sifaka, and bamboo.
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| Sportive lemurs are nocturnal - this one was dozing the day away |
A few days later, we had transited to the Ifaty area and did both day and night walks in the Ifaty Spiny Forest where we spotted a gray mouse lemur at night plus a sportive lemur with big orange eyes both times.
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| Coquerel's sifaka |
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| Macaco lemurs - females are reddish and males all black |
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| Baby crowned sifaka <3 |
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| Common brown lemur up close |
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| Golden sifaka doing the sifaka leaping dance |
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| Bamboo lemurs with the cute flat face |
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| More ringtails |
In addition to wild lemur sightings, we were able to see more species from across the island in the rescue centers at Lemur Island and Lemur Park: bamboo, brown, black ruffed, golden sifaka, red ruffed, ring-tailed, crowned sifaka (with a baby), macacao, and Coquerel's sifaka.
So in sum, we saw 7 lemur species in the wild plus 7 more in reserves!
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| Us among the baobabs of the Ifaty Spiny Forest |
Item 27 Completed 7/23/24
49/56 items complete = 87.5%
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