Stories: Madagascar

Stories connected to Madagascar.

• Only three mature trees may have been left.In 2018, Kew botanists thought that just three known mature Madagascar banana trees, Ensete perrieri, might r…
• Moving away may be an attacking moveIn Madagascar’s fanorona, a piece can capture by approaching an opponent or by withdrawing from an adjacent o…
• Flexible ankles help the fossa descendMadagascar’s fossa has flexible ankles and semi-retractable claws that help it climb trees and descend head-f…
• The tenrec rubs specialized quills togetherMadagascar’s lowland streaked tenrec produces sound by rubbing specialized quills together. This stridulation…
• The spiders were known as fossils firstPelican spiders have elongated jaws and neck-like structures and prey on other spiders. European amber fossil…
• Fresh cloth and a renewed family gatheringIn Madagascar’s famadihana tradition, families bring ancestors’ remains from a family tomb, wrap them in fres…
• Even the notches resemble a decaying leafMadagascar’s Uroplatus phantasticus gecko has a flattened, leaf-like tail. Some individuals have notches that…
• A giraffe weevil puts its neck to workMadagascar’s giraffe weevil, Trachelophorus giraffa, has a black body, red wing covers and an elongated neck.…