- Ring-tailed lemurs: the species most visitors come for. They move across open ground in loose groups, sunbathe upright with arms spread, and hold their striped tails high like flags.
- Coquerel’s sifakas: white, chestnut-patched lemurs that cross gaps between trees in sideways leaps. Watching one push off a trunk is the closest thing here to a show.
- Brown and crowned lemurs: calmer residents of the lower branches. They are easy to photograph at close range and will approach people who stay quiet and still.
- The Ikopa riverside setting: the river runs beside the grounds, and the paths along it give you cool shade, birdsong and the smell of damp earth and eucalyptus.
- Chameleons, tortoises and the botanical beds: radiated tortoises plod along the paths, chameleons sit motionless on branches, and the
- Ring-tailed lemurs: the species most visitors come for. They move across open ground in loose groups, sunbathe upright with arms spread, and hold their striped tails high like flags.
- Coquerel’s sifakas: white, chestnut-patched lemurs that cross gaps between trees in sideways leaps. Watching one push off a trunk is the closest thing here to a show.
- Brown and crowned lemurs: calmer residents of the lower branches. They are easy to photograph at close range and will approach people who stay quiet and still.
- The Ikopa riverside setting: the river runs beside the grounds, and the paths along it give you cool shade, birdsong and the smell of damp earth and eucalyptus.
- Chameleons, tortoises and the botanical beds: radiated tortoises plod along the paths, chameleons sit motionless on branches, and the plantings include Malagasy medicinal and ornamental species that guides explain in plain terms.
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