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Rainforest

Saribia butterfly
Saribia butterfly
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Madagascar has fewer than 300 described species of butterflies. That's not a lot for such a vast tropical area, but a large fraction of these are endemic (found nowhere else).

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Contents:
1.Ranomafana National Park
 ·Tree Flower
 ·Brown Lemur
 ·Research station
 ·Kids in town
 ·Vatoharanana
River

 ·Orange and blue leafhopper
 ·Saribia butterfly
 ·Yellow line caterpillar
 ·Caterpillars
 ·Wasp on nest
 ·Pygmy Grasshopper
 ·Spider with a sewed leaf nest

2.Analamazoatra Special Reserve
3.Montagne d'Ambre National Park
4.Masoala
Peninsula

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

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