How To Use Madagascar In A Sentence
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This focus seems to contradict the book's goal of including Madagascar's diverse peoples without privileging any single group.
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At one level the book is indeed a meticulously documented economic history of nineteenth-century Madagascar.
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For instance, he probably never visited Japan or Madagascar although they were described in the book.
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And, naturally, most of the elements that made "Madagascar" all those millions are back, including lemur leader King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen with a wittily un-peggable dialect), and the song -- the song -- "I Like to Move It.
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Raxworthy and colleagues developed a computer model to study chameleons, lizards known for their ability to change color depending on their mood or surroundings, in Madagascar.
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Sailing for 100 miles over seven days in a small dugout canoe with two local fishermen through the changeable waters of southwest Madagascar.
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Crowned sifaka lemurs are found only in Madagascar, and their survival is threatened by deforestation.
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Golden-crowned sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli), Madagascar.
Madagascar dry deciduous forests
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The introduction of oil to Madagascar would be a timely boost for a country that has suffered recently because of political instability.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four out of the six provinces on the island of Madagascar have declared their intention to secede and form an independent entity.
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Some time ago, however, a peculiar fish was caught near Madagascar.
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The Mongoose Lemur (scientific name Lemur mongoz) is not a mongoose at all, but a prosimian primate, a species of monkey and native only to Madagascar.
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He could easily have cited the Aldabran tortoise, the chuckwalla of Angel de la Guarda, the hippo of Madagascar, the beetles of Madeira, the elephantids of Timor, the iguanas of the Galápagos, the finches of Darwin and Lack, the earwig of Saint Helena, and the dodo.
The Song of The Dodo
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Madagascar has cut its rate by forty - one percent ; Sao Tome and Principe by nearly half.
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Here in the Cape, the indigenous flora is known as feiba, but we'd like to take you to Madagascar to meet a gourmand who is using ethnobotany as an essential element in providing healthcare.
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Aspects of the ecology, taxonomy and chorology of the floras of Africa and Madagascar.
Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
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The team has so far recorded 100 different arthropod species, but Rust said they expect to find more, some of which are likely to be close relatives of animals in Africa and Madagascar.
Prehistoric creatures discovered in huge Indian amber haul
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Thousands of plants and animals on the African island nation of Madagascar are found nowhere else in the world.
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He's the kind of a guy who would put a lampshade on his head and dance the fandango if he thought it would make one person smile, and it takes a similar kind of Texas chutzpah to get up on the stage at the Carlyle, in front of debutantes and dowagers sporting enough jewelry to exceed the gross national product of Madagascar, and sing "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Jubilant and Jazzy for the Holidays
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By next year, the self-taught coffee grower hopes to have 200,000 plants producing first-class arabica - the gourmet's choice, already grown in Madagascar for the domestic market - from his estate in the mountains.
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Such tortoises are increasingly rare because they are frequently poached, and they are critically endangered in their native Madagascar.
Times, Sunday Times
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In May an arm of the Chinese government submitted plans to explore the seafloor around an underwater ridge in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar, where hot springs in the ocean bottom called hydrothermal vents have created deposits containing gold, silver, copper, nickel, cobalt, and tellurium (used in computers, CDs, and DVDs).
Mining’s Final Frontier
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Of the plant-derived anticancer drugs in clinical use, the best known are the alkaloids vinblastine and vincristine, isolated from the Madagascar periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus.
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Saint-Denis local: NA intercity: modern open-wire and microwave network international: radiocommunication to Comoros, France, Madagascar; new microwave route to Mauritius; 1 INTELSAT (Indian Ocean) earth station
The 1995 CIA World Factbook
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People in Betroka were playing sega and 'blues' (the common name for slow songs in Madagascar).
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The inventory of unusual foliage includes calathea plants and Madagascar dragon-trees, known for their air-cleansing qualities.
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Thouars; Glycine subterranea L. Chonyi: tendegwa, nzugu mawe English: Bambarra groundnut, Madagascar groundnut, earthnut, baffin pea, Bambarra bean
Chapter 7
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Madagascar is the most fascinating place I have ever been to.
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40 years ago a fishermen trawling the waters off the coast of Madagascar pulled up a strange specimen in their nets.
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There are trumpeters, cariamas, and the limpkin in South America; sungrebes in South America, Africa, and southeastern Asia; and mesites on Madagascar.
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In June 2004, an animal physiologist, Kathrin Dausmann of Philipps University of Marburg, Germany found that the mammal Lemur of Madagascar hibernates in tree holes for seven months of the year.
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Such tortoises are increasingly rare because they are frequently poached, and they are critically endangered in their native Madagascar.
Times, Sunday Times
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She revealed he had proposed to her on Christmas day over a candlelit dinner whilst they were on a holiday in Madagascar.
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I think that the latter point is significant here, as the posts on eagle owls, phorusrhacids, the Madagascar pochard, and the 10 bird meme were not spin-offs of my own ideas, but were instead initiated by the writings of others.
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California and Madagascar, and pink beryl (morganite) from Madagascar, became available in quantity, the "pinked" topazes had but few competing gems, and thus commanded a higher price than the natural topazes.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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In a report highlighting the 25 most endangered primate species, conservationists have outlined the desperate plight of primates from Madagascar, Africa, Asia and Central and South America, with some populations down to just a few dozen in number. golden headed langur, which is found only on the island of Cat Ba in north-eastern Vietnam, is down to 60 to 70 individuals.
The Guardian World News
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In 1996 a small mission hospital called the Good News Hospital was opened in Mandritsara, a market town in the northern interior of Madagascar.
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Raffia, a native of the South Sea Islands and of Madagascar, is the inner bark of the raphia palm, pulled off, torn into narrow strips, dried in the sun, and bound into bunches, which are plaited together and stored ready for use or shipping.
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A small reddish bat, Myotis goudoti, was scattered across the cave walls, while in the farthest corner, hundreds and hundreds of Otomops madagascarensis were crammed together.
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The lake is home a troop of rare lemurs - a primate species indigenous to Madagascar.
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Players move from space to space on a board in the shape of Madagascar which is coloured in the white, red and green of the national flag.
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The insectivorous tenrec Tenrec ecaudatus, introduced to the Seychelles from Madagascar, also occurs.
Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve, Seychelles
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Madagascar has huge resources of minerals and metal under its old skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other ratites, the elephant bird of Madagascar and the moas of New Zealand, have been extinct for several centuries, probably as a result of human hunting.
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His team studied Verreaux's sifakas in Kirindy Forest, western Madagascar.
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Lemurs have been the focal point of species-based conservation efforts in Madagascar, including Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) pictured here.
Biological diversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
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According to Hadfield, virtually any plant will do well in the product's clear bubble, although he recommends aloe vera, peace lily and Madagascar dragon as particularly strong filters.
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Nine of the critically endangered species targeted by the grants are reptiles, including the Siamese crocodile, Antiguan racer, and river terrapin; seven are birds, including the Siberian crane, Polynesian ground-dove, and Madagascar pochard; and five are mammals, including the giant sable and the duiker, in addition to the Ethiopian wolf.
Salazar Announces Nearly $650 Thousand in Grants to Conserve Critically Endangered Wildlife Around the Globe
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But there are a number of circumstances (especially chorological facts) which suggest that the primeval home of man was a continent now sunk below the surface of the Indian Ocean, which extended along the south of Asia, as it is at present (and probably in direct connection with it), towards the east, as far as Further India and the Sunda Islands; towards the west, as far as Madagascar and the south-eastern shores of Africa.
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
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Take a look at designer handbags from Madagascar, silk scarves from Thailand, cushions and embroidered decorations from the Indian sub-continent and a selection of jewellery set with semi-precious stones.
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A ground-dwelling cuckoo, Delalande's coucal lived in Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa, along with an array of strange animals found there.
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The spiny thicket or "spiny desert" of southern Madagascar, also referred to as deciduous thicket, is a globally distinctive ecoregion.
Madagascar spiny thickets
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Like much of Madagascar's wildlife, lemurs are under serious threats.
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Madagascar has lush rainforests, beautiful beaches and a rich array of wildlife.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fifty per cent of Madagascar's population earn less than one US dollar per year, scratching a living from the parched red earth or feeding themselves by fishing.
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However, it is established that similar to other ecoregions on Madagascar there are a number of narrowly distributed endemic species and recent biological inventories of the ericoid thicket has located further endemic species.
Madagascar ericoid thickets
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In Madagascar, promising peace talks initiated in Maputo by an international mediation group eventually fizzled and today, protests were violently repressed by the transitional government.
Global Voices in English » Françafrique casts shadow in Gabon, Madagascar, and Mauritania
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Bedding or wax begonias, heliotrope, impatiens, and Madagascar periwinkle can be moved indoors and grown as house plants over the winter.
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Madagascar is one of the largest producers of morganite.
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Then Gondwanaland itself split to form what we now know as South America, Africa and Madagascar.
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Incidentally, pochard bones from Reunion may or may not be anything to do with the Madagascar pochard (Mourer-Chauviré et al. 1999): if the Reunion bones are referable to this species, then it had a far wider range in the recent past than it did in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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The genus is confined to the tropics and subtropics, with 22 species occurring in the Americas and 12 species found in Africa, Madagascar and the Middle East.
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Telecommunications: adequate system; modern open-wire and microwave network; principal center Saint-Denis; radiocommunication to Comoros, France, Madagascar; new microwave route to Mauritius; 85,900 telephones; broadcast stations - 3 AM, 13 FM, 1 (18 repeaters) TV; 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT earth station
The 1994 CIA World Factbook
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In Madagascar one character, a lion, must rediscover his predatory instincts to stay alive.
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It comes from the wetlands of central eastern Madagascar, where it lives apparently on small mammals and fish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Madagascar is considered a biodiversity hot spot, an area that is home to great numbers of species and that is under constant assault from human activity.
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U.S. officials described the wood as "sawn timber" and said Madagascar officials were "defrauded" by a local exporter about the nature of the product.
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In 1862, Charles Darwin correctly predicted that the Christmas star orchid, which is endemic to Madagascar, was pollinated by a moth with a 30cm-long proboscis.
Unique night-flowering orchid found
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It is the zebus that have irrevocably eradicated so much of Madagascar's primordial landscape.
Times, Sunday Times
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More than half of Madagascar's freshwater fish are threatened with extinction.
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This fall, Ms. Pic is captivated by Tahitian vanilla, which she said is "woodsier, closer to aniseed" than the Madagascar variety.
The Illusionist of French Gastronomy
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CORWIN (voice-over): Out of the 100-plus species of lemurs living in Madagascar, the indri is the largest and can weigh as much as 20 pounds.
CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2007
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The explanation for the strange appearance of fossas and other Madagascar animals goes back some 160 million years ago in geologic time.
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A year later, I became an external PhD student at the college, studying seed dispersal by lemurs in Madagascar.
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The island republic of Madagascar, lying some 400 kilometers off the coast of east Africa, is touted as the only African country with a single language.
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CORWIN (voice-over): But it is only here, in these remote rain forests in eastern Madagascar, that the indri exist.
CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2007
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the French annexation of Madagascar as a colony in 1896
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Our adventure recon to Madagascar turns up virgin rivers, ivory beaches, and limitless possibilities.
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His rose oils come from the Valley of Roses in Bulgaria, the vanilla comes from Madagascar, the lavender from Provence.
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Four years ago back-to-back cyclones whiplashed Madagascar over a two-month span.
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It depicts the kalanoro, a "short, three-toed, bipedal, water-dwelling, mean, scruffy-hair hominoid" apparently known to tribes in Madagascar.
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In the lower reaches of the river, red-crowned crane Grus japonensis (EN), hooded crane Grus monacha* (VU), oriental stork Ciconia boyciana (EN), black stork Ciconia nigra*, yellow-legged buttonquail Turnix tanki, Far Eastern curlew Numenius madagascariensis and grey-faced buzzard Butastur indicus* are present.
Central Sikhote-Alin, Russian Federation
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Cousins of the perhaps more familiar khanga from Kenya and the east coast of Africa, lamba hoany are rectangular cloths manufactured in either Madagascar or India.
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To enhance the deep - going and all - round communication and cooperation between China and Madagascar.
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When I worked many years ago on this subject, I doubted much whether the now-called Palearctic and Nearctic regions ought to be separated; and I determined if I made another region that it should be Madagascar.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
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Karavides ($45), four huge prawns from Madagascar, grilled a la plancha just 'til tender, with grilled lemons, served with braised artichokes and lemon-basil spaghettini, one of my favorite dishes of the night.
Jay Weston: Xandros -- Greek Food and Dancing in Beverly Hills
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These clothes may not look as if they're inspired by the continent, but they can be called African, because the textiles were woven together in Madagascar.
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But Madagascar's landscape may not be a bad fit for lions, giraffes, zebras, and hippos.
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Madagascar's vanilla production has been adversely affected in recent years by a series of devastating cyclones.
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They did not have white cloud mountain minnows either by that name or by white cloud danio, so I headed to the fish store on University with Madagascar, some kitty litter, a water softening pillow for my tetra, and some other odds and ends in my passenger side seat.
Day in the Life of an Idiot
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Similarly, the genus Dracaena contains xeromorphic species distributed in the Macaronesian islands, Madagascar, and along the African coast from southern Africa into Arabia.
Socotra Island xeric shrublands
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Those cute little lemurs in Madagascar have seen their rainforest habitat quickly eradicated due to the sales of exotic woods such as rosewood, which is why the U.S.
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The British government officially recognised Madagascar as an independent country in 1820.
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The lemurs of Madagascar are the surviving members of a lineage that has been genetically isolated from the rest of the primate family for at least 65 million years.
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But the Miocene and Eocene periods were certainly warm, and these alpine plants could hardly have migrated over tropical forest lands, while it is very improbable that if they had been isolated at so remote a period, exposed to such distinct climatal and organic environments as in Madagascar and Abyssinia, they would have in both places retained their specific characters unchanged.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
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But the ratite lineage in general, with its heritage of gigantism and flightlessness, is relictual on Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand and was until recently on Madagascar, having held out in those places while long ago disappearing from the mainlands.
The Song of The Dodo
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Lemurs are rare prosimians found only in Madagascar.
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I loved the Penguins of Madagascar stories in the Ape flipbook — the first four-pager is punchy and true to the characters, and the simple penguin shapes are graphically interesting.
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Madagascar, Mexico, Réunion and Tahiti produce the plumpest and most flavoursome vanilla pods.
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The lemurs of Madagascar vary widely, from the tiny Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae), which, at only 30 grams, is the world's smallest primate, to the indri (Indri indri, EN), which leaps from tree to tree similar to the airborne kangaroo.
Biological diversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
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Brad Bailey joined an Earthwatch group tracking the endangered fossa cat in Madagascar, making a 30-minute film based on his experience.
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California and Madagascar, and pink beryl (morganite) from Madagascar, became available in quantity, the "pinked" topazes had but few competing gems, and thus commanded a higher price than the natural topazes.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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African researchers retyping manuscript drafts are from Kenya, Ghana, Madagascar and Tanzania.
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Madagascar ericoid thickets - Encyclopedia of Earth
Madagascar ericoid thickets
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Madagascar is the world's 4th largest island, just a bit larger than California and situated just off the east coast of Africa.
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The British government officially recognised Madagascar as an independent country in 1820.
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Madagascar's landscape may not be a bad fit for lions, giraffes, zebras, and hippos.
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‘Madagascar’ is an animated film featuring the voices of Chris Rock, Ben Stiller and Jada Pinkett Smith.
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Behind the newspaper headlines of a crackdown in South Africa, of so-called mopping-up operations in Namibia, of the repeated invasions of the People's Republic of Angola, behind the headlines that speak of the exploits of bandits and puppets against the peoples of Mozambique, Seychelles, Madagascar, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and of incursions into Botswana and Swaziland, lies a story of massive human suffering and death.
Speech by Thabo Mbeki, Representative of the ANC, at the special meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in Observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Sharpeville Day)
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There are trumpeters, cariamas, and the limpkin in South America; sungrebes in South America, Africa, and southeastern Asia; and mesites on Madagascar.
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Madagascar, a large, tropical island off the east coast of Africa, isn't the kind of place you'd expect to find a mammal that hibernates.
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Some say that tanzanite, the blue variety of zoisite, is what set off the gem rush in East Africa, although Madagascar was producing other fine gems at the time.
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Juliet's death, at the school's Ivoloina Zoological Park in Madagascar, was a blow to scientists, who had hoped that the female would mate with Romeo, a male diademed sifaka, who has been at the center in North Carolina since 1993.
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The Madagascar Evangelical Church originated some decades ago through an unusually gifted evangelistic worker, who successfully planted churches in previously unreached situations.
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A catlike civet known as a fossa prowls the rain forest of Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park.
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Research published last year by Valerie C. Clark of Cornell University showed that poison dart frogs (Dendrobates species) and their Madagascar counterparts, the Mantella frogs, sequester toxic skin chemicals, called alkaloids, from the ants they eat.
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Madagascar is home to many species of lemur, which is a small aminal that looks like a cross between a monkey and a squirrel.
Your Disgusting Head
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Food price protests were seen a factor in the ousting of Indonesia's long-term autocrat Suharto in 1998, and anger over a farmland purchased by South Korean firm Daewoo at a time of rising prices was in part blamed for a 2009 coup in Madagascar.
Record High Food Prices Stoke Fears For Economy
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Take a look at designer handbags from Madagascar, silk scarves from Thailand, cushions and embroidered decorations from the Indian sub-continent and a selection of jewellery set with semi-precious stones.
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'superimpose'kan untuk ... izzah: salam semua, korang semua dah sertai belum peraduan madagascar 2??? izzah dah antar dah penyertaan .. siap wat ...
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Madagascar has lush rainforests, beautiful beaches and a rich array of wildlife.
Times, Sunday Times
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From Madagascar and Mexico, these vines have spread their flavour to the remotest corners of Kerala enticing farmers into its fold.
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Snyder, in my opinion correctly, identifies "four distinct versions of the Final Solution" that preceded the actual hecatomb: "the Lublin plan for a Jewish reservation in eastern Poland," Jewish emigration into the Soviet Union with Stalin's consent (which he refused), Jewish resettlement in Madagascar (which the British navy would have blocked), and forced emigration into the Soviet Union after the German invasion.
Caught between two killers
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But Madagascar isn't entirely mantas and sharks, crabs and pipefish.
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Not that I minded that part of it at all; she was an uncommon inventive amorist, and when you've been chief stud and bath attend-ant to Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar, with the threat of boiling alive or impalement hanging over you if you fail to satisfy the customer, then keeping pace even with Susie is gammon and peas.
Isabelle
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Thereat mirth grew in them the more and they rehearsed to him his curious rite of wedlock for the disrobing and deflowering of spouses, as the priests use in Madagascar island, she to be in guise of white and saffron, her groom in white and grain, with burning of nard and tapers, on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and the anthem _Ut novetur sexus omnis corporis mysterium_ till she was there unmaided.
Ulysses
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Madagascar is the most fascinating place I have ever been to.
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On returning to Madagascar, both sides abrogated the agreement.
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Perrier's sifaka of Madagascar and the Tana River red colobus of Kenya are now restricted to tiny patches of tropical forest, leaving them vulnerable to rapid eradication.
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There are several succulents: crown of thorns, Madagascar palms, stapelias, optunia sublata to name a few.
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QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM), a joint venture between Rio Tinto and the Madagascar government, is mining ilmenite, which is used in products such as food colouring, sunscreen and paint.
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Three of my colleagues and I had travelled from the California Academy of Sciences to the remote Radama Islands (map) off the northwest coast of Madagascar to join a team of Malagasy scientists and staff from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
Dr. Terry Gosliner: From Beautiful Nudibranchs to Coral Graveyards: Marine Research in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (PHOTOS)
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Other endangered primates now include lemurs in Madagascar, tamarins in Brazil, langurs in Vietnam, orang-utans in Sumatra, and gorillas and a variety of monkeys in Africa.
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Madagascarterritorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or 100 nm from the 2,500-m deep isobath
Maritime claims
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Extending from Morombe to Tolagnaro along the southwest coast of Madagascar, this ecoregion is based primarily on Humbert’s (1955) southern vegetation domain, within Cornet’s (1974) larger ‘subarid’ bioclimate.
Madagascar spiny thickets
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All four species are endemic to Madagascar and are found primarily in rainforests.
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Other ratites, the elephant bird of Madagascar and the moas of New Zealand, have been extinct for several centuries, probably as a result of human hunting.
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Thereat mirth grew in them the more and they rehearsed to him his curious rite of wedlock for the disrobing and deflowering of spouses, as the priests use in Madagascar island, she to be in guise of white and saffron, her groom in white and grain, with burning of nard and tapers, on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and the anthem UT NOVETUR SEXUS OMNIS CORPORIS MYSTERIUM till she was there unmaided.
Ulysses
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The angel that Pierre had married in Madagascar had become a termagant, blinded by jealousy.
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Not just in Guadeloupe but also 34 people have died in Madagascar after violent protests in the Madagascar capital against the president.
And the rioting starts (update)
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Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, is renowned for its wealth of unique plants and land animals, including lemurs, fossas, and giant jumping rats.
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One such reason is the way in which struthious birds are, or have been, distributed around the antarctic region: as the ostrich in Africa, the rhea in South America, the emeu in Australia, the apteryx, dinornis, &c. in New Zealand, the epiornis in Madagascar.
On the Genesis of Species
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Such tortoises are increasingly rare because they are frequently poached, and they are critically endangered in their native Madagascar.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plant hot weather annuals such as cockscomb, Madagascar periwinkle, portulaca, and annual salvias.
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Foreigners can also volunteer with Earthwatch to help track lemurs or radio-collar Madagascar's lynx-like fossa.
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I still vote for the Madagascar Fossa - the conformation is an excellent fit.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel!
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With no other carnivores around, mongooses and civets became Madagascar's predators, and the fossa filled the hunting niche usually occupied by cats.
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Some time ago, however, a peculiar fish was caught near Madagascar.
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Madagascar is the most fascinating place I have ever been to.
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Martin schematized Madagascar into seven habitat zones—six peripheral segments of forest, with the central plateau as their hub.
The Song of The Dodo
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Chameleons such as this male Parson's chameleon from Madagascar change their skin color to hide and to communicate.
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In 1985, by some sort of journalistic accident I was sent to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine to look for an almost extinct form of lemur called the aye-aye.
Last Chance to See
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She was no refined amorist, that one, strong as a bullock, randy as a stoat, and the roughest ride I could remember since Ranavalona of Madagascar — another Black Pearl of Africa, but before I could make philosophic review of this coincidence, my attention was distracted by a gentle pricking of some sharp point under my right ear, and a soft voice whispering:
Flashman on the March
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A new sibling species of the anuran subgenus Blommersia from Madagascar (Amphibia: Mantellidae: Mantidactylus) and its molecular phylogenetic relationships.
Archive 2006-03-01
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The trail will focus on countries such as Indonesia, Brazil Madagascar (the natural habitats of Dublin Zoo's Sumatran tiger cub, Ratna, the Brazilian tapir and ring-tailed lemurs).
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There are trumpeters, cariamas, and the limpkin in South America; sungrebes in South America, Africa, and southeastern Asia; and mesites on Madagascar.
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When back-to-back hurricanes whiplashed the African island nation of Madagascar in February and March of 2000, Karen Freudenberger thought the Fianarantsoa Côte Est railroad may have reached the end of its line.
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Two examples of Malagasy endemics include the Madagascar serpent eagle (Eutriorchis astur) and the Madagascar red owl (Tyto soumagnei), which have recently been rediscovered in several areas across this zone, including the Masoala Peninsula and sites further south.
Madagascar lowland forests
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Of the plant-derived anticancer drugs in clinical use, the best known are the alkaloids vinblastine and vincristine, isolated from the Madagascar periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus.
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This little beast is a lemur and it lives in Madagascar.
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It is a primate, close kin to the bushbabies of sub-Saharan Africa and the lemurs of Madagascar.
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Certain trees growing wild in the Comoro Islands and Madagascar are known as caffein-free coffee trees.
All About Coffee
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The latter is composed of two major blocks, a horizontal one lacquered white, juxtaposed with a more vertical unit made of Madagascar ebony with satinwood and maple interiors.
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Lemurs, a group of primates on the African island of Madagascar, go after a wide range of seeds, including big fleshy seeds encased in a husk.
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The wet forests of eastern Madagascar have the highest number of threatened birds, including the Madagascar serpent-eagle (Eutriorchis astur, EN) and the Madagascar red owl (Tyto soumagnei, EN).
Biological diversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
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The occurrence of this frog in Madagascar and its relatives' existence in South America provides strong evidence that the supercontinent Gondwana 'disassembled' during the latest part of the Cretaceous," said Richard Lane, program director in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.
Archive 2008-02-01
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These examples are extremely pertinent as they act as a metaphor for the precarious nature of schoolchildren's ambitions and the ambiguous status achieved by the schooled person in Madagascar.
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The pictures show baby lemurs from Madagascar that have been illegally smuggled into the country.
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Here you'll see lemurs, those fascinating primates unique to Madagascar, as well as a variety of other rare creatures and plants.
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The collection consists of South African succulents as well as plants from Namibia, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the Canary Islands, Europe, Asia and the Americas.
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As a Gibson employee wrote in an internal email about how the company could get Madagascar wood onto what it called the "grey market": "All legal timber and wood exports are prohibited because of widespread corruption and theft of valuable woods like rosewood and ebony.
Gibson Guitar and Illegal Logging
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Winter in Madagascar is like summer here… hot days, warm nights which are to be expected on an island that stretches from the Tropic of Capricorn half way to the equator.
