Portal:Madagascar/Did you know
- ... that illegal logging in Madagascar has been an ongoing problem, which escalated after the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, threatening endangered species such as rosewood trees (pictured) and lemurs?
- ... that the Blue Vanga is the only vanga occurring outside of Madagascar?
- ... that the type specimen of Kinkonychelys represents the first turtle skull described from the pre-Holocene era in Madagascar?
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Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/1
- ... that France's Madagascar expedition of 1883 (bombing action pictured) was triggered by the will to remove British economic and religious influence from the island of Madagascar?
Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/2
- ... that illegal logging in Madagascar has been an ongoing problem, which escalated after the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, threatening endangered species such as rosewood trees (pictured) and lemurs?
Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/3
- ...that Madagascar dry deciduous forests such as Anjajavy Forest (pictured) contain many endangered and endemic species of lemurs, boas, and chameleons?
Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/4
- ...that Kalanchoe pinnata (pictured), a succulent plant native to Madagascar, has been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago as being used as a traditional treatment for high blood pressure?
Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/5
- ... that the Blue Vanga is the only vanga occurring outside of Madagascar?
Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/6
- ... that Jean Ralaimongo came to prominence in 1929 after 3,000 demonstrated following speeches in a cinema in Madagascar?
Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/7
- ... that William Louis Abbott, American doctor and philanthropist, went to Madagascar to enlist in the native army against the second French occupation of the island?
Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/8
- ...that Bemaraha Woolly Lemur, a Madagascar lemur species discovered in 1990 and formally described in 2005, is also called Cleese's Woolly Lemur, after John Cleese, due to his fondness for the creatures?
Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/9
- ... that the type specimen of Kinkonychelys represents the first turtle skull described from the pre-Holocene era in Madagascar?
Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/10
- ...that Claire's Mouse Lemur is a newly described species of primate that only lives on Nosy Bé, an island near Madagascar?
Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/11
- ...that although no fossils of the extinct Malagasy Hippopotamus have been dated within the last 1,000 years, villagers in Madagascar described a similar creature still alive as recently as 1976?
Portal:Madagascar/Did you know/12
- ... that Beccariophoenix alfredii, a newly discovered species of palm tree native to Madagascar, has a similar appearance to the Coconut palm, but is cold hardier?
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