Madagascar Gallery

Angraecum sesquipedale, Madagascan orchid

This species of orchid was used by Darwin to prove his theories of evolution. Illustration from The British Museum (Natural History) by Peter Whitehead and Colin Keates, 1981

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A Sleepy Ring-Tailed Lemur, Island of Madagascar

The ring-tailed lemur is a large strepsirrhine primate and the most recognized lemur due to its long, black and white ringed tail. It belongs to Lemuridae, one of five lemur families, and is the only member of the Lemur genus. Like all lemurs it is endemic to the island of Madagascar and inhabits gallery forests to spiny scrub in the southern regions of the island. It is omnivorous and the most terrestrial of extant lemurs. The animal is diurnal, being active exclusively in daylight hours

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African Native People, lithograph, published in 1897

African Native People: 1 - 2) Mpongwe people from Gabun; 3) Arab from Morocco; 4) Arab from the southern Tunisia; 5) Fellah; 6 - 7) Copts; 8) Koto from Niger; 9) Fang people; 10) Berber (Dachelaner); 11) Fur people; 12) Nubian; 13) Congolese people; 14) Zulu people; 15) Bagirmi boy; 16) Mangbetu (Monbuttu); 17) Zande people (Niam-Niam); 18) Madi people (Schuli); 19 - 20) Abyssinian people; 21 - 22) Khoikhoi (formerly derogatory named as Hottentots); 23) Batswana girl (Betschuan); 24) Aka people; 25 - 26) San people (Bushmen); 27) Sakalava people from Madagascar; 28) Swahili people from Zanzibar (Tanzania); 29 - 30) Somalis. Lithograph after a drawing by Gustav MAOEtzel (German painter, 1839 - 1893), published in 1897