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Mammals of Madagascar (Lynx Edicions)

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Take Madagascar, for example, one of the world’s highest-priority Biodiversity Hotspots: that island-continent is most famous for its penguins. Well, sort of, as there are no penguins in Madagascar, indigenous or otherwise. Yet, those bird guides are hefty.

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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. That would change our thinking on Madagascar, as well as human movement in the Indian Ocean, considerably.

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Palleon nasus Chameleons - Madagascar

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submitted by /u/seed_madagascar [link] [comments].

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Madagascar: The Last Inheritor of Gondwana

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Madagascar: The Last Inheritor of Gondwana tries to walk the “all of the above” line, which is sometimes satisfying, sometimes disconcerting, and sometimes outright frustrating. Perhaps the best audience of all would be curious non-experts planning a trip to Madagascar, and lacking an overly enthusiastic buddy of their own.

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Phelsuma madagascariensis - species of day gecko from Madagascar.

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New Moth Species Found In Madagascar Has The Longest Tongue Of Any Insect

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submitted by /u/OfficiallyGamingGuru [link] [comments].

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Sending Shivers, er, Trembles Up My Spine

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To add even more to the lore of the trembler, an old skin discovered in the World Museum previously attributed to an extinct starling from Madagascar called the Mascarene Starling or Necropsar leugati was more recently revealed to be – you guessed it – a Gray Trembler.

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