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Rainforest

Mating Dance Flies
Mating Dance Flies
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Among Dance Flies part of the mating process is for the male to provide food to the female, a so-called "nuptial gift". In doing so the male both demonstrates his fitness as a mate and makes an energy investment in his future offspring.

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Contents:
1.Ranomafana National Park
2.Analamazoatra Special Reserve
3.Montagne d'Ambre National Park
 ·Impatiens with spider
 ·Petit Cascade
 ·Strangler fig
 ·Gold tortoise
beetle

 ·Mating Dance Flies
 ·Weevil

4.Masoala
Peninsula

5.Nosy Mangabe Special Reserve
6.Former rainforest near Sambava
 
Golden Mantella, Mantella aurantiaca

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