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Varecia rubra |
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Varecia |
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A young red-ruffed lemur looks for ripe fruit at ground level. |
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Masoala National Park |
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Sign at park entrance at Ambatoladaima |
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A parrot in the Azinina tree |
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The red-ruffed lemurs kept chasing these parrots out of the tree. They were both feeding on the pink flowers. |
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Varecia |
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Looking cute up high |
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Climbing a tree |
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Looking for lemurs |
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JC points them out to me |
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Route National 5 |
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Inside Masoala National Park near Ambatoladaima |
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Synchronized feeding |
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They are eating leaves |
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Synchronized feeding |
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Varecia |
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eating leaves in suspensatory posture. |
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Flowers |
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Varecia drank the nectar from these flowers. |
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Large seeds |
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Passed by Varecia. Ouch. |
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Ambatoladaima |
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The forest and the rice paddies |
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Betadine the pig |
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Our camp pig, Betadine means "big ears" |
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Snake |
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This was living under Claire's tent! |
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Masoala NP |
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Inside Masoala National Park |
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Maroantsetra from air |
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Maroantsetra from Air Madagascar flight. |
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Red-ruffed lemur with radio collar |
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Young female with radio collar at Ambatoladaima. |
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Team Fampotobe |
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The team, again some are missing from shot. |
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Distributing school supplies |
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Jeff and guides working on my research project distributed books, notebooks, and pens to the primary school in Antananananmbo, Fampotobe region. |
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Camp at Fampotobe |
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My tent at Fampotobe site. |
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Lemurs on my mind. |
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This is NOT at my field site. It's at the ridiculously fun Lemur Island in Andasibe. All the lemurs were former pets or otherwise confiscated from people, so they say. |
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Jaquelin |
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Ok, just being plain silly when a camera comes out. Rain coat and shower cap on a dry day. |
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Neighbors Fampotobe |
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Our neighbors let us camp on their land while in Fampotobe region. |
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Research team in Fampotobe |
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Only part of the research team, back row: Paul, Jeff, me, Tsarasoa, Onja, Labierra. Front row: Georges and Arison |
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Logging in Fampotobe |
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Local people selectively log wood for construction. |
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View of rice field |
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Waves of dry rice in Fampotobe region border forest. |
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Girls of Antananananambo |
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I brought boxes of clothes for the kids of this village. This is the village nearest my former site in Fampotobe. |
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Camp at Fampotobe |
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Somewhere under the rainbow, data is collected... |
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Labierra's party |
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A family gathering to celebrate his son's passing of the exam to advance beyond primary school. |
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Sharks in market, Maroantsetra |
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Sharks live in Antongil bay, but only until someone catches them. |
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Kitchen |
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At Fampotobe site. |
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Camp dogs |
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Boks, Puppy, and Sport Kely play |
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Jeff and big Canarium tree |
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Jeff tried to hug the tree. |
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Brookesia, very small |
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Smallest chameleon lives on Nosy Mangabe in the Antongil Bay. |
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Camp life |
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The cook liked to do local ladies' hair (note comb in woman's hair, second from left). |
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Rain gauge |
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We wear our best to check the rain gauge. |
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Crazy pirogue |
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Avalisy gets crazy on the pirogue. |
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White-fronted brown lemur |
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Eulemur albifrons hiding in vegetation, Nosy Mangabe. |
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Extended family |
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The family that helped us evacuate our flooding camp site Christmas Eve, thanks to cyclone Bondo. |
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Onja did not like the orginial caption |
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Onja and Jenny fooling around! |
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Neighbors |
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The neighbor girls cross the river to braid my hair. Note the Greenpeace t-shirts thanks to Jacob. |
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Peek-a-boo |
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Red-ruffed lemur peeks from pillowcase. Standard methodology during recovery from anesthesia.
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Latsiro-ing the rice |
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Not sure if this is a verb. Cleaning the rice using a latsiro. |
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Looking good |
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Georges and Paul sport their raingear thanks to IdeaWild. |
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Pumping water |
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I love my FirstNeed water purifier, but they do not support me to say this. They should. |
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Bird on nest |
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Bird nesting over the river adjacent to our camp, Ambatoladaima. |
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Red-ruffed lemur |
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with radio collar in Ravenala madagascariensis |
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Ducks |
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Our camp poultry pals. The chicken pictured, Portera, thought she was a duck. |
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River flooding |
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Our river flooded and made camp life rather stressful at Ambatoladaima. |
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Jenny and red-ruffed lemur |
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Jenny was of great help while the lemurs recovered from their anesthesia. |
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Jocelyne cooks coffee beans |
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A couple of team members could not work without coffee. |
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To Antalaha |
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Our walk to Antalaha from Ambatoladaima. Many river crossings. |
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Jenny at swimhole |
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Jenny loved visiting the freezing water at the swimhole. |
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Kingfisher |
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Beautiful bird, not in Masoala, in Andasibe. |
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Craziness |
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Trying to work out logistics on phone while Jenny plays with her THB. |
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