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Traveling Exhibit

Dry tropical forest

Coquerel's Sifaka mother and young
Coquerel's Sifaka mother and young
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These beautiful lemurs are relatively large (about 4 kg/9 lb). They live in small groups and feed primarily on leaves although their diet includes other plant material (especially mangoes in our observation). As usual, the primary threat to Coquerel's Sifika is habitat destruction.

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Contents:
1.Ankarana Special Reserve
2.Ampijoroa Forestry Station
 ·Lake Ampijoroabe
 ·Woman and children fishing
 ·Crocodile at Lake Ampijoroabe
 ·Coquerel's Sifaka mother and young
 ·Coquerel's Sifaka
 ·Aroid
 ·Dragonflies mating
 ·Flatid bugs
 ·Flatid bug nymph
 ·Flatid bug
 ·Ant lion
 ·Cryptic moth
 ·Tortoise Beetle
 ·Grasshopper with stars in its e
 ·Golden Silk Spider
 ·Pholcid spider on a leaf
 ·Tiny Salticid spider
 
Golden Mantella, Mantella aurantiaca

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