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Rainforest

Gravesia leaf and fruit
<I>Gravesia</I> leaf and fruit
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The condition of leaves on this Gravesia plant - from smooth and intact to mottled by leaf miner insect larvae to riddled with holes -shows the intensity of herbivore pressure on plants.

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

 ·Beach at Ambanizana
 ·Black and yellow spider
 ·Red clawed crab
 ·Large red and black frog
 ·Green Treefrog
 ·Ambanizana River
 ·Red Ruffed Lemur call
 ·Red and black click beetle
 ·Purple flowers
 ·Fungus Weevil
 ·Green and black frog
 ·Green chameleon
 ·Assassin bug
 ·Hopper
 ·Snail on Gravesia leaf
 ·Gravesia leaf and fruit
 ·Decaying leaf
 ·Ambohitsi-
tondroina hilltop

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

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