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Orange pill millipede
Orange pill millipede
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Madagascar has some of the largest and most colorful pill millipedes in the world. All of the many kinds of giant millipede in Madagascar are endemic. Millipedes have two pairs of legs on each body ring (each ring consists of two fused ancestral segments).

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Contents:
1.Plants
2.Millipedes
 ·Red millipede
 ·Orange pill millipede
 ·Pill millipede on its back
 ·Pill millipede in hand

3.Frogs
4.Tortoises
5.Snakes
6.Iguanid Lizards
7.Chameleons
8.Birds
9.Lemurs
10.Carnivores
11.Rodents
 
Golden Mantella, Mantella aurantiaca

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