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Madagascar is expansive, and travel is slow, so in the month I spent there in 2015, I only saw and experienced a tiny fraction of what the island and its people have to offer. Image Men with zebu ...
In Madagascar’s central highlands, the Merina tribe exhumes the remains of their ancestors and even dances with them in a sacred ritual. CNN values your feedback 1.
Madagascar is home to many unique species, including a variety of lemurs. But there’s one species living in the island’s forests that scientists hadn’t quite been able to figure out until ...
Not just animal life, plant life too: fat baobabs, spine-covered trees reaching skywards, palm-studded grasslands, orchid-bedecked rainforest… Madagascar’s magic tends to come in small packages. No ...
Of the 109 different lemur species in Madagascar, nearly a third of them are perilously close to disappearing. Of baobab trees, the Adansonia perrieri species is at high risk for extinction.
Why is Madagascar’s wildlife so unique? Their ancestors may have rafted over. It’s long been a mystery how the ancestors of gremlin-like aye-ayes and satanic leaf-tailed geckos got to the island.
A stampede of sports fans trying to enter Madagascar's national stadium for the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games has killed 12 and injured around 80, the prime minister said on ...
Madagascar’s Ancient ‘Pelican Spiders’ Are As Striking As They Are Strange New research offers an in-depth look at the island’s fascinating spider scene. Ryan P. Smith - Correspondent.