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Why is Madagascar so special?
Biographies in biodiversity
The human scene
Conservation issues
Travel and tourism
Information sources and contacts
Urban areas
Rainforest
Dry tropical forest
Spiny desert
Madagascar locations map
Ankarana Plateau from the savanna
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The Ankarana Plateau was the only truly world-class rocky landscape we visited in Madagascar. It has a 150 m/500 ft thickness of amazingly eroded limestone with caves and canyons over an area of 100 sq km/40 sq mi.
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Ankarana Special Reserve
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Ankarana Plateau
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Topographic map
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Dave and big tree
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Lepilemur in tree
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Lepilemur at night
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British Camp
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Crowned Lemur in a tree
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Male Crowned Lemur
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Crowned Lemur
call
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Female Crowned Lemur and baby
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Cicada nymphal shell
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Large cicada
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Cicada calls
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Many noisy cicadas
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Large Day Gecko
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Green Day Gecko
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Copper colored lizard
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Palm at sunset
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Ankarana cave
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Pottery in cave
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Fruit Bat
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Bat call
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Cave tunnel crossing canyon
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Canyon at cave crossing
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Isolated forest from cave exit
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Parrot call
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Tsingy and lake
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Tsingy and
Pandanus
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Tsingy rock
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Tsingy percussion
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Harpoon Plant
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Brown chameleon
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Ampijoroa Forestry Station
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David R. Parks
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