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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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A guide to the birds of St Helena and Ascension Island – An archetype of extinction and introduction

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Madagascar Fody (Foudia madagascariensis ) – One of the many introduced birds on the islands On July 8th, 1836, the “HMS Beagle” arrived at St Helena only to leave a few days later. The species accounts are different in the sense that they are split into two parts. BirdLife international has designated St.

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Madagascar’s Lost and Found

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Paging through a fieldguide, it’s always with a sense of dismay and sadness that I come across reference to an extinct species. Madagascar, however, has had more than its fair share of extinct or lost species and Madagascar Pochard was firmly on this list. This bird was kept in captivity until it died a year later.

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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. Still, there should be no problem with larger species that allow for longer observation time (e.g.

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Another Bird Species Goes Extinct

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This time, it's the Alaotra grebe from Madagascar, according to the 2010 IUCN Red List update for birds, by BirdLife International. The report has bad news for bird species all around, identifying 12.5 Tags: birds extinction endangered species. percent as being endangered.

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

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