There are quite a number of different species of these, and they differ mostly in their coloration.

Now, this one with its dark brown cap, I think this is actually one of the loveliest.

I can just hear them making that slight sifaka, sifaka noise, which is a kind of slight, I think, uneasy noise that they make when they're just a little worried, and which gives them their name of sifaka.

Their faces, with that long snout and moist nose, are really rather dog-like.

But it's when you see their hands that you realize they're related to monkeys and to us.

These grasping hands.

And I've actually had a pet mon- lemur a long, long time ago, and it held onto my hand in the most charming way.

On that first trip, I kept a journal, and reading it now reminds me of how excited I was seeing these creatures for the first time.

Before they started feeding, the adult male and female treated us to a captivating display of wrestling.

The female was sitting on her bottom on the branch, her feet dangling, while the male came along and put a half nelson on her.