I am cursing the great evolutionary survival tactic, camouflage and wishing lemurs were florescent orange, when Andreas spots a brown collared lemur in the tree I have just walked past and stared straight at. Undeterred by my humiliating lack of observational skills I get out the GPS and our lemur behaviour tracking begins. On closer inspections there are at least 4 adults in the group and two are females with young clinging to their backs. The babies take a sneaky peek at us from the safety of their mothers’ fur. Lemur behaviour studies aren't that easy, it's often a case of resting, resting, resting, sleeping, sleeping etc. then suddenly they become active and they are off, swinging from tree to tree with far more agility and speed than us clumsy humans on the ground can match as we push through the orb spider webs and saw-toothed pandanas in a comical attempt to keep pace.
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