Madagascar’s isolation from other land masses has had a significant influence on the ecology of the France-sized island country. Much like the diversity and uniqueness of Australia’s natural wonders, Madagascar is home to fauna, insects and mammals of unimaginable form. The country and its contents almost seem alien when compared to typical travel destinations.
Nearly all of Madagascar’s 10,000 plant species can be found nowhere else in the world. Madagascar is home to tropical rain forests, tropical dry forests (yes, there are tropical “dry” forests too, otherwise know as “dry deciduous forests”), plateaus, and deserts and xeric shrublands. These various ecological regions, along with the unique animal and plant life found in them, are the primary reasons many scientists refer to the island as the “eighth continent”.
Any further information you wish to discover about Madagascar can be found in the links above. The images below definitely caught my attention and forced me to appreciate the country’s odd beauty. If Africa is too far out of the way, the Wildlife Conservation Society recently opened a Madagascar! exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in New York. A Podcast from the New York Academy of Sciences discussing the fauna of Madagascar can be listened to here. Enjoy!
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