My mom visited this weekend and we had a lovely time exploring and hanging out with the lemurs. Besides taking her around to meet all of our lemur couples and seeing the Lemur Center, we went hiking in the Duke Forest, went to the Durham Farmer's Market, cooked lots of yummy food, went swimming, explored Duke and went to the Duke Gardens, visited the Museum of Life and Science and went to the Butterfly house... so much fun!
Here are some butterflies from the Magic Wing's Butterfly House:
We even found an Asian market called Li Ming's! AND they sell vegetarian sticky rice!!!
And we caught some frogs :)
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Mom and a narrowmouth toad! |
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Mom and I at the Duke Gardens |
While we were hiking yesterday we came across a group of tiger swallowtails hanging out on the ground along the river. There were at least 25 of them with their tongues sticking into the dirt along the river. We discovered later that this behavior is called "puddling" and is exhibited by male swallowtails. They cluster in a group and extract sodium and amino acids from the earth, or whatever else they may find. They then transfer all the good nutrients to the females in their spermatophores-- how cool!!
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Pudding male tiger swallowtails |
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Beautiful lichens! |