On February 12th, the Teens in Nature group went to the Duke Lemur Center. They took an extensive educational tour of the facility, did some volunteer work and got to go behind the scence to watch some aye ayes during feeding time.
The day started out with a tour
After that we had lunch in the movie room where one of our partipants bought a pair of fuzzy ears and tails to dress up like a Lemur!
We then met up with Erin at the center who directed us through our volunteer activities. First, the teens took apart all the pieces of old outdoor Lemur cages. Working as teams, they completed their task safely while still having a blast.
Then we headed over to an area of decomposing logs that needed to be moved to an empty cage. These logs are for the aye ayes to use because they dig out critters with their third LONG finger.
Here is Avi hard at work - - - HEY BEN WHATCHA DOING??? : )
This task was completed very quickly which let enough time for some
ULTIMATE NINJA!
