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Traveling Exhibit

Rainforest

Ambohitsitondroina hilltop
Ambohitsitondroina hilltop
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At a high point at 1080m/3500 ft on the Masoala Peninsula ridge the rainforest gives way in the top 30m/100 ft to sphagnum bog with a very different array of bizarre plants. The hilltop is an island of different vegetation, unlike the other visible hilltops which were completely forested.

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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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