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. Date

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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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The unusual Pitcher plant

The unusual Pitcher plant (Nepthenthes) grows in abundance around Lac aux Nepenthes, a short distance from Lake Ampitabe. The flower acts as a fly trap, digesting trapped insects to obtain trace elements unobtainable in marshy soil

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