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Traveling Exhibit

Rainforest

Nosy Mangabe shoreline
Nosy Mangabe shoreline
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All of this small (520 ha/1285 acre) island in the Bay of Antongil is a Special Reserve. Some trees were cut before the reserve was established, but the land was never cleared. It is a rare treat to see places where rainforest comes right down to the ocean.

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Contents:
1.Ranomafana National Park
2.Analamazoatra Special Reserve
3.Montagne d'Ambre National Park
4.Masoala
Peninsula

5.Nosy Mangabe Special Reserve
 ·Nosy Mangabe shoreline
 ·Garth and bonito
 ·Nosy Mangabe ridgetop
 ·Spiral fern
 ·Uroplatus control tree
 ·Two Uroplatus geckoes
 ·Non-cryptic Uroplatus
 ·Uroplatus gecko
 ·Uroplatus on a small branch
 ·Owlfly
 ·Tailless swallowtail butterfly
 ·Persimmon
 ·Dendrocalamus bamboo
 ·Bamboo patch
 ·Jumping spider
 ·Red and green chameleon
 ·Clearwing hopper and ant
 ·Parasitic wasp

6.Former rainforest near Sambava
 
Golden Mantella, Mantella aurantiaca

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