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Monday, May 30, 2022 - My last day in the field - I walked around the forest before breakfast while the sun came up.

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A "forest" of Madagascar Ocotillo - the plantation has a very active nursery and is replanting all the various plants in the Spiny Forest - here are rows of the ocotillo.
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Unusual trees in a section of the plantation. Not the iconic baobab but a relative.
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Branches against the sky.
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The unusual twists and turns of the trees.
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Sunlight touching the tops of the trees.
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An interesting technique of cutting the agave flower stalk which results in a new plant popping up at the cut.
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Malagasy Kestrel watching the forest floor.
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A Ring-Tailed lemur in a bush eating the flowers/fruit.
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Deciding his next move - an intense Ring-Tailed.
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A kite high in the trees. Not sure which kite it is - maybe a Red kite.
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A Ring-Tailed lemur enjoying the warming rays of the morning sun.
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Verreaux's Sifaka lemur eating breakfast.
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Ring-Tailed lemurs on the ground and up in the trees - they are very active.
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Ring-Tailed lemurs looking for trouble.
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Madagascar Ocotillo detail.
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Agave growing on a flower stalk.
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The big mission for the morning - find a family of Verreaux's Sifaka lemur moving toward a road and capture the dancing lemurs.

This one is on the last tree before the road - from here he will hop down and dance his way across the road.
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Flying high at the top of a hop
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Dancing lemur - so cute it makes one laugh.
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Lords a leaping - you can see the dirt kicked up in the hop.
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Gracefully moving along
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So interesting that they only move sideways.
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Mandrare River flowing through the Sisal plantation and providing water for the nearby village of Amboasary Sud.
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Laundry at the river's edge - the word Maki on the blanket is Malagasy for lemur.
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Memorials to the dead - the height of the monument indicates the age at death.
The trip back to Taolagnaro was painful - this is National Road 13 - so an interstate...

We would drive an average of 10 mph and arrive in time for dinner. The next day began the trip home - a 2-hour flight to Tana, then some time there and a late night flight to Paris (13.5 hours), then Detroit (8.5 hours), and finally home (4 hours) to Virginia Ann and Riley!!!!
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