{"id":6968,"date":"2009-10-01T00:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T04:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6968"},"modified":"2009-10-01T00:19:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T04:19:06","slug":"les-lemurs-des-lovely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6968","title":{"rendered":"Duke's Lemurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my birthday, my supa-fine woman surprised me with a trip to Duke University's Lemur Center<\/a>. It's a preserve, out in the wilds of Durham, NC, where Duke keeps 200+ lemurs; and you can go visit, if you make an appointment. <\/p>\n

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Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n

That's a Coquerel's Sifaka.<\/p>\n

The lemurs we saw were all in outdoor pens, but there is an enclosed chunk of forest where they get to run free. I think they said you can get tours of that, too. Next time!<\/p>\n

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Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n

Those are some ringtailed lemurs. They have a ton of ringtails.<\/p>\n

The tour was an hour long, mostly spent going from pen to pen, looking at the different species - none of whom seemed at all interested in us. Unfortunately, they were all behind chain-link fence and it was hard to get pictures where the sun wasn't glaring off of it. But, I got a few.<\/p>\n

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Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n

I don't know what species this guy\/gal belongs to. <\/p>\n

They were all a lot smaller than I thought they'd be. The ringtails, for example range from 5 to 6 pounds<\/a> - less than half the size of Pepper<\/a>! And most of a lemur is tail - at least by length. They look a bit like a cross between a fox and a monkey. And their fur is very soft - as we could tell from the pelts they had laying out in the gift shop. Yipe.<\/p>\n

Most of the lemurs we saw were outdoors, in the pens, but there are also a few nocturnal species in their own windowless building. There was an Aye-Aye, Lorises both slow and slender, and a \"fat-tailed dwarf\" lemur - maybe something else, I forget. We got to see them, through glass, but there was only a dim red light (like a darkroom), so I got no pictures. But, they were cool - very small and very quick, almost like lizards.<\/p>\n

A good time. I'd like to see some more of them, running around in the woods, especially. Maybe I could take some classes and get to experiment on them... think Duke would take me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On my birthday, my supa-fine woman surprised me with a trip to Duke University's Lemur Center. It's a preserve, out in the wilds of Durham, NC, where Duke keeps 200+ lemurs; and you can go visit, if you make an appointment. Nikon D90, 18-105mm That's a Coquerel's Sifaka. The lemurs we saw were all in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}