I went out as a sort of wet behind the ears completely ignorant 21 year old and spent 18 months in Madagascar. |
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Sailing for 100 miles over seven days in a small dugout canoe with two local fishermen through the changeable waters of southwest Madagascar. |
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All four species are endemic to Madagascar and are found primarily in rainforests. |
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At one level the book is indeed a meticulously documented economic history of nineteenth-century Madagascar. |
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The Mongoose Lemur is not a mongoose at all, but a prosimian primate, a species of monkey and native only to Madagascar. |
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Madagascar is the world's 4th largest island, just a bit larger than California and situated just off the east coast of Africa. |
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The species she has chosen to benefit is the Livingstone fruit bat found on the Comores islands between Madagascar and the African mainland. |
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Brad Bailey joined an Earthwatch group tracking the endangered fossa cat in Madagascar, making a 30-minute film based on his experience. |
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The explanation for the strange appearance of fossas and other Madagascar animals goes back some 160 million years ago in geologic time. |
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From Madagascar and Mexico, these vines have spread their flavour to the remotest corners of Kerala enticing farmers into its fold. |
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The native fodies may also face competition from the Madagascar fody, which has been introduced to Mauritius. |
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In Madagascar one character, a lion, must rediscover his predatory instincts to stay alive. |
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Plant hot weather annuals such as cockscomb, Madagascar periwinkle, portulaca, and annual salvias. |
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Then, on their second to last day in Madagascar, in a park called Ranomafana, they hit pay dirt. |
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Lemurs, a group of primates on the African island of Madagascar, go after a wide range of seeds, including big fleshy seeds encased in a husk. |
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Bedding or wax begonias, heliotrope, impatiens, and Madagascar periwinkle can be moved indoors and grown as house plants over the winter. |
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Chameleons such as this male Parson's chameleon from Madagascar change their skin color to hide and to communicate. |
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She revealed he had proposed to her on Christmas day over a candlelit dinner whilst they were on a holiday in Madagascar. |
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Local translations have been made into Burmese, and in Madagascar and in a former Russian Republic. |
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This species, like all vangas is endemic to Madagascar, where it is found only in the northeast. |
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The coral-billed nuthatch belongs to a family of birds called the vanga shrikes, found only on Madagascar. |
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Traditionally, vangas were considered to be an endemic family to Madagascar, with just 14 species. |
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The pictures show baby lemurs from Madagascar that have been illegally smuggled into the country. |
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Thousands of plants and animals on the African island nation of Madagascar are found nowhere else in the world. |
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Fly-pollinated plants, like the skunk cabbage of North America or the stinking corpse lily of Madagascar, typically have quite pungent odors. |
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A rare blind snake has been rediscovered in Madagascar a century after its last sighting. |
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In 1996 a small mission hospital called the Good News Hospital was opened in Mandritsara, a market town in the northern interior of Madagascar. |
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Then Gondwanaland itself split to form what we now know as South America, Africa and Madagascar. |
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Visitors who linger in Madagascar often come to view even ominous setbacks with a Malagasy nonchalance. |
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Players move from space to space on a board in the shape of Madagascar which is coloured in the white, red and green of the national flag. |
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The Kreutlers bred boas, corn snakes, Madagascar lizards and bearded dragons. |
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Our adventure recon to Madagascar turns up virgin rivers, ivory beaches, and limitless possibilities. |
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Four out of the six provinces on the island of Madagascar have declared their intention to secede and form an independent entity. |
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Like many Malagasy musicians, he was exposed to numerous divergent musical influences from within Madagascar and Africa in general. |
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The flowers are usually identified as poinsettia, which in the Malagasy language is Madagasikara, the local name for Madagascar. |
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The lamba hearty, then, continues to be a means of signaling a distinct Malagasy identity, within Madagascar and abroad. |
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Today, Austronesian languages are spoken from Madagascar in the west, to Easter Island in the east. |
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African researchers retyping manuscript drafts are from Kenya, Ghana, Madagascar and Tanzania. |
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Here you'll see lemurs, those fascinating primates unique to Madagascar, as well as a variety of other rare creatures and plants. |
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It is a primate, close kin to the bushbabies of sub-Saharan Africa and the lemurs of Madagascar. |
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A year later, I became an external PhD student at the college, studying seed dispersal by lemurs in Madagascar. |
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His rose oils come from the Valley of Roses in Bulgaria, the vanilla comes from Madagascar, the lavender from Provence. |
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Tungiasis is widespread in tropical Africa, especially West Africa, including Madagascar. |
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Four years ago back-to-back cyclones whiplashed Madagascar over a two-month span. |
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A total of 794 species were considered at risk, including the Indian pygmy hog, the Mallorcan midwife toad and the golden-crowned sifaka of Madagascar. |
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A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 40 people so far, and due to antibiotic resistance, it could kill many more. |
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On returning to Madagascar, both sides abrogated the agreement. |
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Other ratites, the elephant bird of Madagascar and the moas of New Zealand, have been extinct for several centuries, probably as a result of human hunting. |
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Cousins of the perhaps more familiar khanga from Kenya and the east coast of Africa, lamba hoany are rectangular cloths manufactured in either Madagascar or India. |
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Some say that tanzanite, the blue variety of zoisite, is what set off the gem rush in East Africa, although Madagascar was producing other fine gems at the time. |
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An outbreak in Madagascar, where the disease is endemic, already has involved more than 100 people and killed almost half. |
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The lemurs of Madagascar are the surviving members of a lineage that has been genetically isolated from the rest of the primate family for at least 65 million years. |
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Other endangered primates now include lemurs in Madagascar, tamarins in Brazil, langurs in Vietnam, orang-utans in Sumatra, and gorillas and a variety of monkeys in Africa. |
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The trail will focus on countries such as Indonesia, Brazil Madagascar. |
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The latter is composed of two major blocks, a horizontal one lacquered white, juxtaposed with a more vertical unit made of Madagascar ebony with satinwood and maple interiors. |
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Twenty young Canadians travel to Madagascar to work with Malagasies on researching and developing ideas to help protect Madagascar's unique eco-systems. |
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A glossary of Malagasy terms and the bibliography at the end of the book are a gold mine for anyone wishing to learn more about the material culture of Madagascar. |
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These clothes may not look as if they're inspired by the continent, but they can be called African, because the textiles were woven together in Madagascar. |
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There are nine varieties of pepper, vanilla beans from Tahiti and Madagascar. |
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The island republic of Madagascar, lying some 400 kilometers off the coast of east Africa, is touted as the only African country with a single language. |
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Perrier's sifaka of Madagascar and the Tana River red colobus of Kenya are now restricted to tiny patches of tropical forest, leaving them vulnerable to rapid eradication. |
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His team studied Verreaux's sifakas in Kirindy Forest, western Madagascar. |
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A ground-dwelling cuckoo, Delalande's coucal lived in Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa, along with an array of strange animals found there. |
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The genus is confined to the tropics and subtropics, with 22 species occurring in the Americas and 12 species found in Africa, Madagascar and the Middle East. |
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Madagascar is considered a biodiversity hot spot, an area that is home to great numbers of species and that is under constant assault from human activity. |
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But Madagascar isn't entirely mantas and sharks, crabs and pipefish. |
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Malagasy and French are both the language of instruction in primary and secondary schools in Madagascar. |
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The family Didiereaceae, composed of four genera and 11 species, is limited to the spiny forests of southwestern Madagascar. |
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In 2004 Cyclone Gafilo became the strongest cyclone ever recorded to hit Madagascar. |
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Madagascar belongs to the group of least developed countries, according to the United Nations. |
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This is especially the case for French, which is in widespread use throughout Central and West Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Maghreb. |
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Countries that have adopted rugby union as their de facto national sport include Fiji, Georgia, Madagascar, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga and Wales. |
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Alexander Abela's 2001 Makibefo was set among, and starred, residents of Faux Cap, a remote fishing community in Madagascar. |
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The autonomous state of Madagascar has since undergone four major constitutional periods, termed republics. |
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Beginning in the early 19th century, most of the island was united and ruled as the Kingdom of Madagascar by a series of Merina nobles. |
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Until the late 18th century, the island of Madagascar was ruled by a fragmented assortment of shifting sociopolitical alliances. |
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Other groups continued to settle on Madagascar over time, each one making lasting contributions to Malagasy cultural life. |
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The circumnavigation of Madagascar opened an alternative route to get to India, which gave more flexibility in timing. |
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There was also an unskilled labour shortage, which the VOC later resolved by importing slaves from Angola, Madagascar, and the East Indies. |
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The current Madagascar outbreak is of particular concern for two reasons. |
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Dutch traders also imported thousands of slaves to the fledgling colony from Indonesia, Madagascar, and parts of eastern Africa. |
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Cannibalism amongst some species of dinosaurs was confirmed by tooth marks found in Madagascar in 2003, involving the theropod Majungasaurus. |
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Has vicariance or dispersal been the predominant biogeographical force in Madagascar? |
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Asian species are the most endangered, closely followed by the five endemic species from Madagascar. |
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A memorandum of understanding has been inked between China and Madagascar on Wednesday to bolster cooperation in geosciences. |
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In Madagascar there are more studies that predates the human arrival in the isle of several millennia. |
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Seems young Bond is sent to Madagascar to spy on a terroristbut it all goes to pot. |
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Also, at the same time, Madagascar and India began to separate from Antarctica and moved northward, opening up the Indian Ocean. |
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Rodents reached both South America and Madagascar from Africa, and were the only terrestrial placental mammals to reach and colonize Australia. |
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Madagascar dry deciduous forests and lowland rainforests possess a high ratio of endemism. |
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Young viewers learn about everything from the exotic giant Elephant Beetle and Madagascar Cockroach to common earthworms and butterflies. |
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Examples are Madagascar and Socotra off Africa, the Kerguelen Islands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and some of the Seychelles. |
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A stalwart of the Prosimian Taxon Advisory Group, Derek met 30 delegates from across Europe and Madagascar at the Bristol Zoo event. |
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In this way, Iceland is considered part of Europe and Madagascar part of Africa. |
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Here in Madagascar, onboard the hospital ship Africa Mercy, we treat many people with late-stage tumors of the midface, cranium and mandible. |
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The east coast of the African continent hosts a few nesting grounds, including islands in the waters around Madagascar. |
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In either case, these dates make Madagascar one of the last major landmasses on Earth to be settled by humans. |
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Madagascar was an important transoceanic trading hub connecting ports of the Indian Ocean in the early centuries following human settlement. |
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During the Second World War, the island was the site of the Battle of Madagascar between the Vichy government and the British. |
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Since regaining independence, Madagascar has transitioned through four republics with corresponding revisions to its constitution. |
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In 1896 the French colonizers of Madagascar adopted the Merina capital as their center of colonial administration. |
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Modern politics in Madagascar are colored by the history of Merina subjugation of coastal communities under their rule in the 19th century. |
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Madagascar was again suspended by the African Union in March 2009 following the unconstitutional transfer of executive power to Rajoelina. |
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Madagascar is a member of the International Criminal Court with a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the United States military. |
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Eleven countries have established embassies in Madagascar, including France, the United Kingdom, the United States, China and India. |
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As of January 2017, 34 police officers from Madagascar are deployed in Haiti as part of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti. |
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The majority of roads in Madagascar are unpaved, with many becoming impassable in the rainy season. |
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The most important seaport in Madagascar is located on the east coast at Toamasina. |
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French became the official language during the colonial period, when Madagascar came under the authority of France. |
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Over the years, Madagascar has had different language policies under different influences of authority. |
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Madagascar managed to maintain the indigenous language, Malagasy, in society and in schools despite the colonizing power. |
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Western recreational activities were introduced to Madagascar over the past two centuries. |
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Madagascar sent its first competitors to the Olympic Games in 1964 and has also competed in the African Games. |
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Scouting is represented in Madagascar by its own local federation of three scouting clubs. |
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Three Horses Beer is the most popular beer on the island and is considered emblematic of Madagascar. |
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After discovering the Tristan da Cunha Islands, Cunha landed in Madagascar. |
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Ratsitatane, nephew of King Radama of Madagascar, was brought to Mauritius as a political prisoner. |
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Mauritian investors are gradually entering African markets, notably Madagascar, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. |
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Cloves are commercially harvested primarily in Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Madagascar, Zanzibar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania. |
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Madagascar was partly explored by Cunha, and Mauritius was discovered by Cunha whilst possibly being accompanied by Albuquerque. |
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At Madagascar, where a brief stop was planned, seventy people had to be buried. |
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Huyghen sailed for Goa on 8 April 1583, arriving five months later via Madeira, Guinea, the Cape, Madagascar and Mozambique. |
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In Madagascar, sheep were not eaten as they were believed to be incarnations of the souls of ancestors. |
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Before the 16th century, pepper was being grown in Java, Sunda, Sumatra, Madagascar, Malaysia, and everywhere in Southeast Asia. |
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For example, in eastern Madagascar, the following scenario occurs commonly. |
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Another very notable feature of Madagascar was the elephant bird, an enormous relative of the ostrich which reached 3 m in height. |
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The second, Velvet Cream accord, is billed as a blend of Madagascar vanilla, ambrette, vetiver, patchouli magnolia flower and jasmine. |
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It appears there were two distinct oceanic migrations from the mainland to Madagascar. |
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These cases were identified within an ongoing project to document melioidosis in Madagascar conducted by the Pasteur Institute in Antananarivo. |
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Kalanchoe is indigenous to the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Mozambique. |
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Add Kalanchoes from Madagascar and Poinsettias from Mexico to your worldly display. |
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Although invertebrates remain poorly studied on Madagascar, researchers have found high rates of endemism among the known species. |
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Endemic fish of Madagascar include two families, 15 genera and over 100 species, primarily inhabiting the island's freshwater lakes and rivers. |
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The small woolly Avahi cleesei lives on leaves in a remote part of Madagascar. |
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The Africa Mercy docked in Toamasina in the Republic of Madagascar from October 2014 through June 2015 and performed 1,269 surgeries. |
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The Republic of Madagascar is a relatively small island made famous by its amazing diversity in flora and fauna. |
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Ring-tailed lemurs come from the island of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa. |
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These different prey animals are native to Madagascar with the exception of the roof rat. |
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The classic case is the rosy periwinkle, found in the tropical forests of Madagascar. |
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At least 17 species of lemur have become extinct since humans arrived on Madagascar, all of which were larger than the surviving lemur species. |
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The black and white ruffed lemur we have here, that you often see in zoos, is critically endangered in the wilds of Madagascar, unfortunately. |
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End it all with a traditional South African Chocolate Malva Pudding, served warm with Madagascar vanilla sauce and Apricot compote. |
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Madagascar is feel-good family fun with an eye-popping and vertigo-inducing finale that will leave you loopily happy and wanting more. |
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A wide variety of oral and written literature has developed in Madagascar. |
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A number of traditional pastimes have emerged in Madagascar. |
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In three colourways, Madagascar Agate Moss Agate and Laguna Agate, the palettes are pounds 29 each and available at Fenwick and Space NK in Newcastle. |
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In a nutshell, a high pressure cell was present over the South African Highveld while another high pressure cell sat some 2000 km south of Madagascar. |
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The drugs vinblastine and vincristine are vinca alkaloids, used to treat Hodgkin's disease, leukemia, and other cancers, were derived from the Madagascar periwinkle. |
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Antananarivo is the administrative capital and largest city of Madagascar. |
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The Royal Marines formed the Royal Marine Division as an amphibiously trained division, parts of which served at Dakar and in the capture of Madagascar. |
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As a result of the island's long isolation from neighboring continents, Madagascar is home to an abundance of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth. |
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It is very likely that this last expedition reached as far as Madagascar. |
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Prantl from Africa, Madagascar, the Comoros, and the Mascarenes. |
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As their name implies, afrotherians putatively represent a radiation of placentals rooted in the African continent and nearby island of Madagascar. |
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At one point, there were nearly 1,000 pirates located in Madagascar. |
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He will learn jungle survival during five weeks on the remote island of Madagascar, home to many unique species such as lemurs, giant tortoises and elephant birds. |
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More recently, Hinduism was introduced to Madagascar through Gujarati people immigrating from the Saurashtra region of India in the late 19th century. |
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The small island of Nosy Boroha off the northeastern coast of Madagascar has been proposed by some historians as the site of the legendary pirate utopia of Libertalia. |
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Passage through the Indian Ocean aided the colonisation of Madagascar by the Austronesian people, as well as commerce between West Asia and Southeast Asia. |
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The people of Madagascar call him Deba, which means Big Boss. When President Didier Ratsiraka came to power 26 years ago, the moniker was meant as a term of endearment. |
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In 1890, the British accepted the full formal imposition of a French protectorate on the island, but French authority was not acknowledged by the government of Madagascar. |
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It's as if the indri, the largest living lemurs, are singing at the door of my simple rainforest lodge in the lowland jungle of eastern Madagascar. |
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Aepyornis maximus, known commonly as elephant birds, was found exclusively on the island of Madagascar up until 1,000 when the species became extent. |
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Madagascar is a francophone country, and French is mostly spoken as a second language among the educated population and used for international communication. |
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Three previously unknown species of mouse lemur have been discovered in Madagascar by an international team of researchers, the British Broadcasting Corp. |
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Mouse lemurs, said to be the most primitive primate, are found exclusively on the island of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa. |
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An international team of scientists has discovered three unknown species of mouse lemurs, the world's smallest primates, living in the endangered forests of Madagascar. |
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The settlement of Madagascar is a subject of ongoing research and debate. |
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The peoples of Southeast Asia, especially those of Austronesian descent, have been seafarers for thousands of years, some reaching the island of Madagascar. |
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Although nearly half of all chameleon species today live in Madagascar, this offers no basis for speculation that chameleons might originate from there. |
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The Malagasy people of Madagascar are an Austronesian people, but those along the coast are generally mixed with Bantu, Arab, Indian and European origins. |
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Off Madagascar, spinner sharks follow migrating schools of mackerel. |
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Air Austral s first 777-200LR will allow the airline to operate non-stop from Mayotte, an island chain and French Department north of Madagascar, to Paris. |
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The hotel's gardens are a birdwatchers' paradise with little brightred Madagascar fodys, Indian mynahs and tufted bulbuls all noisily flitting among the palm and mango trees. |
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When depicted in movies and cartoons, zebras are most often miscellaneous characters, but have had some starring roles, notably in Madagascar, Racing Stripes and Khumba. |
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To avoid the worst consequences of doubling Cape Correntes, India ships stayed as far from the African coast as possible but not so close to Madagascar to run into its traps. |
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The principal institutions of the Republic of Madagascar are a presidency, a parliament, a prime ministry and cabinet, and an independent judiciary. |
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According to American scientists, the dinosaurs roamed the Earth some 90 million years ago when India and Madagascar were one landmass cut off from the rest of the world. |
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The baobabs are a stem-succulent tree native to the dry regions of tropical Africa, Australia and Madagascar but dispersed widely by human activities. |
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Since 2006, hovercraft have been used in aid in Madagascar by HoverAid, an international NGO who use the hovercraft to reach the most remote places on the island. |
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Only a preliminary survey has been made to date, but it already is clear that it is one of the richest subfossil sites ever discovered in Madagascar. |
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With attractive pinkish-white flowers and lush green foliage, the Madagascar rosy periwinkle appears at first to be an innocuous, decorative plant. |
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Passage through the Indian Ocean aided the colonisation of Madagascar, as well as commerce between Western Asia, eastern coast of India and Chinese southern coast. |
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The region experienced high volcanic activity and plate subdivisions, creating Madagascar, Seychelles, Antartica, Austrolasia and the Indian subcontinent basin. |
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Instead of trying to sell for gold as the company's directors intended, however, the Drummond brothers had exchanged the goods for slaves, whom they sold in Madagascar. |
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In addition to the state television channel, a variety of privately owned television stations broadcast local and international programming throughout Madagascar. |
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He gave the money to the Madagascar Fauna Group, setting in motion a projec t to transport captive-bred black and white ruffed lemurs and restore them to the jungle. |
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