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The lemurs of Madagascar had a big pair of eyes and looked the size of a cat. Its long, puffy tail was dangling down while it rested. It was an endemic primate to see and Mom and I didn't want to miss it. In addition, the lemurs were so famous that they were featured in the Hollywood cartoon movie "Madagascar", by King Julien.

We boarded a Dinghy, a small speed boat like a tender, and came to Nosy Be Island, Madagascar. From there, we went to the Lemur Isles of Nosy Komba, an idyllic and lush island that was home to thousands of lemurs.

From the Fisherman's Village to the Black Lemurs Sanctuary, the first lemur we saw happened to be a black male, while the female was brown. However, there was nobody looking at this one! Where was everybody? My question was answered when somebody screamed. Over the hill, a crowd of people was gathered around a lemur that appeared to be standing on somebody's shoulder. The tour guide was holding a banana to attract the lemur. The lemur would leap off the person and back onto the tree as it waited for another free snack. When I was finally the first in line, the lemur seemed so full that it wouldn't eat the banana the tour guide gave me.

As we went on, I spotted something I'd always wanted to do holding a snake and not any regular snake. It was a boa constrictor! The reptile creature was almost four feet long and nobody would dare touch it. The boa constrictor was hanging around the tour guide's neck at the moment. When he saw me, he pulled me forward and hung it around my neck. Immediately, cameras started flashing. By the looks of it, everyone was thinking I was very brave, or extremely stupid. But the truth was sometimes you had to be brave and stupid to really accomplish something.

【红霞译文】

马达加斯加狐猴长有一双巨眼，大小如猫，蓬松的长尾巴摆来晃去从不歇息，这就是当地特有的灵长类原猴。正因如此，我和妈妈到访印度洋岛国时绝不想失之交臂。狐猴扬名海外，曾在好莱坞动漫电影《马达加斯加》中担任主要角色——首神之子国王。

我们登上酷似轮渡的小艇来到马达加斯加大岛，由此转往狐猴呆的岩岛——一个郁郁葱葱、极富田园情调的岛屿，成千上万只狐猴常年生活在这里。

穿过渔村进入黑狐猴保护区，当第一狐猴从眼前经过，立刻吸引了我们高度注意，这是黑色公狐猴，与棕色母狐猴截然不同。问题在于周围竟然空无一人，游客都跑到哪里去了？小山那边传来尖叫声，我才终于明白怎么回事。原来一大群人正围观一只狐猴，它站在游客的肩膀上东张西望，导游手拿香蕉以吸引其注意力，这样狐猴可以老老实实为游人当模特，人们也学着不停地喂狐猴，狐猴频繁在游客和绿树之间跳来跳去，等好不容易轮到我，狐猴早已撑得吃不下了。

沿山路继续前进过程中，我终于发觉梦寐以求的东西，那就是亲自动手抓一条并非普通的蛇，眼前这一条是蟒蛇，身长足有四英尺，正缠在导游脖子上，非常吓人！导游见我而来，顺手把蟒蛇放到我身上，骤然之间，闪光灯四起，快门声不绝于耳，从观众面部表情上我可以猜出，大家要么羡慕我胆大包天，要么嫉恨我愚昧无知。其实，世人欲想办成什么事情，有时候还是需要勇气胆量的。

Today in History(历史上的今天):

2012: Malvinas/Falkland Is(马尔维纳斯群岛/福克兰群岛)

2010: 节日聚会(Holiday Party)

2009: 澳洲塔斯马尼亚荒原(Tasmania, Australia)