Just came back from the $12 tour. The center is cl...

Just came back from the $12 tour. The center is clean and has good gravel roads. Except for that, most of the tour is equivalent (or worst) to the reading the wikipedia page about lemurs and watching a 10 minutes youtube video (you actually do it there). Admittedly, we weren't lucky: today is a rather cold day (50F) and most lemurs hid indoors, where the visitors aren't allowed. So, we saw lemurs only in about 8 cages. But even if all of the lemurs were out and playing, they are behind two (2!) cage nets, with the second net being 2 meters / yards away from visitors. You can barely see them. Forget about pictures. This way you pass by around 20 cages, with the tour guide telling you not to stand in front some of the lemurs, as they are currently having some family issues. At the end, you get to see 3 cages with nocturnal species (perhaps, the best part of today) and that's it!

Any other zoo is better (if the zoo keeps lemurs, as a lot of them do, you'll have a better experience with them there in this center). Want to see lemurs in Durham? Better go to the Durham Life and Science Museum! You'll see them better and closer than here. Otherwise, you can feel good by making a donation, which is apparently well spent on preserving lemurs in Madagascar.