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Highlights: Wildlife
Madagascar is home to one of the most remarkable wildlife assemblages on earth. It is not a "chip off the old Africa block", rather it is a parallel world where strange and bizarre animals and plants have evolved. At every turn there is something that jolts the senses and challenges convention. In Madagascar, expect the unexpected.
Mossy Leaf-tailed Gecko (Uroplatus sikorae). From forest understorey at night. Masoala National Park, Madagascar.
Mossy Leaf-tailed Gecko (Uroplatus sikorae) cleaning eye with tongue. Forest understorey at night. Masoala National Park, Madagascar.
Namorona Falls and river. Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
Namorona Falls, Namorona River, with montane rainforest. Ranomafana National Park, eastern Madagascar. (digitally stitched image)
Net Throwing Spider (Dinopis sp.) lying in ambush. Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar.
Net-throwing Spider or Ogre-faced Spider (Dinopsis sp.) with net. Active at night. Masoala National Park, Madagascar.
Tangle branches of Octopus Trees (Didieracea trolli). South west Madagascar.
Octopus Trees (Didierea madagascariensis) at sun set, southern spiny forest, north of Toliara, south west Madagascar.
Montane rainforest understorey along a stream with dominant Pandanus sp. Vohiparara, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. (digitally stitched image)
Aerial (upper) pitcher of Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes madagascariensis), along Pangalanes Canal, east coast of Madagascar. Endemic
Madagascar Pitcher Plants (Nepenthes madagascariensis) Pangalanes Canal, east Madagascar.
Pitta-like Ground Roller (Atelornis pittoides) in rainforest undergrowth. Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, eastern Madagascar.
