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    December 28, 2010 [Tuesday]
    by Anthony

    Duke Lemur Center

    DSC_4117 A second trip to Durham in a week?  This has to be some type of record.

    Today we went to the Duke Lemur Center and unlike the Carnivore Preservation Trust this is definitely a place I want to visit again.  (No offense CPT I just like walls around the animals I am visiting.)  The Duke Lemur Center has the most lemurs of any place outside of Madagascar.  The center is home to over 250 prosimians or pre-monkey primates – this group includes the lemurs and a few other odds and ends.

    The tour is very well done and the guide encouraged taking pictures which was no easy task.  The ones after the jump represent the best I could do with the odds that were stacked against me.  Yes – dirty glass and reflections were a issue but add to it a fairly unpredictable and rather quick animal and you have a real challenge.  Over all I was happy with the shots I was able to get and look forward to going back in the spring and hopefully getting a closer look. For this trip this one and this one were my favorites.

    If you decide to go on the tour make reservations in advance.  It sounds like some of the tours get booked rather quickly.  We did the basic $10 tour and it was great.  The gift store is also really cool with lots of unique lemur gifts – while we were waiting for the tour to start we took pictures of a few of the things we could have bought.

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