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Evidence of earlier humans in Madagascar is unconvincing but interesting

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But here I want to note, and for now, dismiss, a find from Madagascar. It was always thought that humans first inhabited the island of Madagascar about four or five thousand years ago or so. It was after that date that many of the great and strange animals of that island went extinct, presumably because of human hunting.

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National Geographic launches Birding TV Show

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His passion for wildlife and traveling has led him all over the world, from the Amazon to Australia and even Madagascar. James Currie will take the viewer on an adventurous journey through the desert with the hope of witnessing Harris’s Hawks hunting together. The viewer will just have to watch and find out.

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The Beach Falcon

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Young Eleonora’s Falcons must develop quickly because they are migrants themselves, moving across the Sahara and down the Swahili Coast to Madagascar. In the approaching sunset, a male Common Kestrel is hunting… possibly some of the Common Quail whose “wet-my-lips” I can hear from the grass.

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Mallards are a Threat to Mottled Ducks in Florida

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Mallards did not occur in New Zealand naturally, but were released to provide hunting stock. The Meller’s Duck is highly endangered in its native Madagascar. The Hawaiian Duck is most likely completely hybridized on the island of Oahu, and may be genetically intact only on the island of Kauai.

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Wonderful Wedgies

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But it also occurs in the Indian Ocean, from Aldabra near Madagascar to Western Australia. The species breeds on an extraordinary number of islands, and has a worldwide population of perhaps over five million birds, and this is in spite of declines to due hunting, persecution and introduced species.

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The picture of the paper-tailed devil gecko lizard (Uroplatus phantasticus), which is endemic to the island of Madagascar, has a tail and a leaf-shaped color, which helps it hide between the leaves and trunks from predators and in hunting.

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Big Ticks; What Was Your Last New Family?

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Here in New Zealand te only potential big tick would be a lost vagrant painted snipe, and we’ve already established that I don’t enjoy that kind of vagrant hunting. At this point if I want to make any dent on the remaining families I haven’t seen I’d really need to go to either Madagascar or South America.

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