Notebook: The Golden Sifaka Golden Sifakas were often the most boisterous species we came across. Strictly arboreal, they are at their happiest high in the canopies.
       
     
Notebook: Life in the Trees It is quite a surprise to find so much life at every store of the forest canopy. Here a strangler fig nestles within the clutches of a sturdy hardwood.
       
     
Notebook: On the Edge Young trees and saplings anchor themselves to the edge of a cliff as they reach for the sun. All along our expedition we were treated to natural skylights above the valley's rocky walls.
       
     
Notebook: A Spider's Life A Darwin spider suspends herself from a silk line that she spun across a narrow stream.
       
     
Notebook: Rising High A narrow valley lined with evergreen hardwoods cuts deep into the arid ground.  
       
     
Notebook: Grassy Banks A skyline of grassy skyscrapers stands out against the flat clouds of Madagascar's horizon.
       
     
Notebook: In a Foreign City My great traveling friend Juan surveys the plains before him, with the ever present panama hat securely in place.
       
     
Notebook: An Endless Expanse The rocks and mountains appeared to be carelessly tossed and strewn around the desert floor, as though without any reason or planning. With a little imagination, one could imagine the place underwater, as it might hav
       
     
Notebook: A Deserted Valley The agricultural valleys of the central highlands offer wide open expanses of land.  
       
     
Lumber Worker A boy’s hands show signs of a life spent laboring in the lumber industry. Forest wood is still a major source of fuel for much of the country.
       
     
Irresistible Eyes Bright orbs peer through the foliage of a fig tree in Andasibe rainforest.
       
     
Notebook: Lemur Lunches Lemurs appear to enjoy an omnivorous diet with a mix of fruit, nuts and insects. A fig here and there would never go amiss.
       
     
Canines Red-Fronted Brown Lemurs have a very particular dentition. A keen gaze helps them find food and members of their group in the undergrowth.
       
     
Sounding Alarms The black-and-white ruffed lemur demonstrates several different call types each of which last several seconds. Most lemurs of a group participate in any one chorus. These lemurs are particularly known for their loud roar/shriek ch
       
     
Notebook: Lemur Coinage The perfectly round profile of a Golden Bamboo Lemur would make the perfect coin for a the Malagasy Mint.
       
     
Gentle Profile Bamboo lemurs were first described by French zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1851. Comparing their small size, proportions, speckled fur, and other traits to those of marmosets—then classified in the genus Hapale—he nam
       
     
Village Tracks Two sisters walk arm in arm down one of Mangabe’s dusty roads.
       
     
Abandoned Outstation There is something quite magical about wooden huts with corrugated metal roofs and palm trees swinging overhead. It gives one the impression of an abandoned Rubber Planter’s outstation, right out of a Somerset Maugham story.
       
     
Sky High A dead tree, perhaps burned during a lightning strike or forest fire, accompanies a group of younger hardwoods as they reach for the clouds above.
       
     
Notebook: The Golden Sifaka Golden Sifakas were often the most boisterous species we came across. Strictly arboreal, they are at their happiest high in the canopies.
       
     
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Notebook: The Golden Sifaka

Golden Sifakas were often the most boisterous species we came across. Strictly arboreal, they are at their happiest high in the canopies.

Notebook: Life in the Trees It is quite a surprise to find so much life at every store of the forest canopy. Here a strangler fig nestles within the clutches of a sturdy hardwood.
       
     
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Notebook: Life in the Trees

It is quite a surprise to find so much life at every store of the forest canopy. Here a strangler fig nestles within the clutches of a sturdy hardwood.

Notebook: On the Edge Young trees and saplings anchor themselves to the edge of a cliff as they reach for the sun. All along our expedition we were treated to natural skylights above the valley's rocky walls.
       
     
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Notebook: On the Edge

Young trees and saplings anchor themselves to the edge of a cliff as they reach for the sun. All along our expedition we were treated to natural skylights above the valley's rocky walls.

Notebook: A Spider's Life A Darwin spider suspends herself from a silk line that she spun across a narrow stream.
       
     
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Notebook: A Spider's Life

A Darwin spider suspends herself from a silk line that she spun across a narrow stream.

Notebook: Rising High A narrow valley lined with evergreen hardwoods cuts deep into the arid ground.  
       
     
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Notebook: Rising High

A narrow valley lined with evergreen hardwoods cuts deep into the arid ground.

 

Notebook: Grassy Banks A skyline of grassy skyscrapers stands out against the flat clouds of Madagascar's horizon.
       
     
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Notebook: Grassy Banks

A skyline of grassy skyscrapers stands out against the flat clouds of Madagascar's horizon.

Notebook: In a Foreign City My great traveling friend Juan surveys the plains before him, with the ever present panama hat securely in place.
       
     
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Notebook: In a Foreign City

My great traveling friend Juan surveys the plains before him, with the ever present panama hat securely in place.

Notebook: An Endless Expanse The rocks and mountains appeared to be carelessly tossed and strewn around the desert floor, as though without any reason or planning. With a little imagination, one could imagine the place underwater, as it might hav
       
     
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Notebook: An Endless Expanse

The rocks and mountains appeared to be carelessly tossed and strewn around the desert floor, as though without any reason or planning. With a little imagination, one could imagine the place underwater, as it might have been millions of years ago.

Notebook: A Deserted Valley The agricultural valleys of the central highlands offer wide open expanses of land.  
       
     
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Notebook: A Deserted Valley

The agricultural valleys of the central highlands offer wide open expanses of land.

 

Lumber Worker A boy’s hands show signs of a life spent laboring in the lumber industry. Forest wood is still a major source of fuel for much of the country.
       
     
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Lumber Worker

A boy’s hands show signs of a life spent laboring in the lumber industry. Forest wood is still a major source of fuel for much of the country.

Irresistible Eyes Bright orbs peer through the foliage of a fig tree in Andasibe rainforest.
       
     
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Irresistible Eyes

Bright orbs peer through the foliage of a fig tree in Andasibe rainforest.

Notebook: Lemur Lunches Lemurs appear to enjoy an omnivorous diet with a mix of fruit, nuts and insects. A fig here and there would never go amiss.
       
     
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Notebook: Lemur Lunches

Lemurs appear to enjoy an omnivorous diet with a mix of fruit, nuts and insects. A fig here and there would never go amiss.

Canines Red-Fronted Brown Lemurs have a very particular dentition. A keen gaze helps them find food and members of their group in the undergrowth.
       
     
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Canines

Red-Fronted Brown Lemurs have a very particular dentition. A keen gaze helps them find food and members of their group in the undergrowth.

Sounding Alarms The black-and-white ruffed lemur demonstrates several different call types each of which last several seconds. Most lemurs of a group participate in any one chorus. These lemurs are particularly known for their loud roar/shriek ch
       
     
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Sounding Alarms

The black-and-white ruffed lemur demonstrates several different call types each of which last several seconds. Most lemurs of a group participate in any one chorus. These lemurs are particularly known for their loud roar/shriek choruses which have several purposes including group movement, spacing among different groups, and alarming other members of the group of predators. 

Notebook: Lemur Coinage The perfectly round profile of a Golden Bamboo Lemur would make the perfect coin for a the Malagasy Mint.
       
     
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Notebook: Lemur Coinage

The perfectly round profile of a Golden Bamboo Lemur would make the perfect coin for a the Malagasy Mint.

Gentle Profile Bamboo lemurs were first described by French zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1851. Comparing their small size, proportions, speckled fur, and other traits to those of marmosets—then classified in the genus Hapale—he nam
       
     
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Gentle Profile

Bamboo lemurs were first described by French zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1851. Comparing their small size, proportions, speckled fur, and other traits to those of marmosets—then classified in the genus Hapale—he named the genus Hapalemur. Hapale derives from the Greek word απαλός (hapalos), meaning "gentle".

Village Tracks Two sisters walk arm in arm down one of Mangabe’s dusty roads.
       
     
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Village Tracks

Two sisters walk arm in arm down one of Mangabe’s dusty roads.

Abandoned Outstation There is something quite magical about wooden huts with corrugated metal roofs and palm trees swinging overhead. It gives one the impression of an abandoned Rubber Planter’s outstation, right out of a Somerset Maugham story.
       
     
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Abandoned Outstation

There is something quite magical about wooden huts with corrugated metal roofs and palm trees swinging overhead. It gives one the impression of an abandoned Rubber Planter’s outstation, right out of a Somerset Maugham story.

Sky High A dead tree, perhaps burned during a lightning strike or forest fire, accompanies a group of younger hardwoods as they reach for the clouds above.
       
     
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Sky High

A dead tree, perhaps burned during a lightning strike or forest fire, accompanies a group of younger hardwoods as they reach for the clouds above.