The Wildlife Enthusiast’s Guide to Madagascar

Take a journey through Madagascar and discover the wildlife, national parks and ecoregions that make this incredible island so special. Madagascar is one of the 17 megadiverse countries and is home to extremely high levels of endemism, including all 100 lemur species, tenrecs and many genera of amphibians, reptiles and birds found nowhere else on Earth.

0:00 Rainforests of the Atsinanana
0:42 Masoala National Park
3:12 Aquatic Biome Pt.1 Turtles & Ray-finned Fishes
4:40 Marojejy National Park
6:11 Madagascar Humid Forests
6:45 Andasibe-Mantadia National Park
9:01 Analavory Geysers
9:39 Ranomafana National Park
11:15 Madagascar Subhumid Forests & Ericoid Thickets
11:38 Andringitra National Park
13:14 Xeric shrubland
13:27 Isalo National Park & Succulent Woodlands
15:23 Tsimanampetsotsa National Park & Spiny Thickets
17:46 Aquatic Biome Pt.2 Sharks
19:34 Madagascar Dry Deciduous Forests
19:58 Tsingy de Bemaraha
21:14 Madagascar Mangroves
22:57 Ankarafantsika National Park
22:46 Nosy Be & Nosy Hara
26:15 Aquatic Biome Pt.3 Whales

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Creative Commons & Other Attribution
Low Res Satellite Imagery: NASA
Medium Res Satellite Imagery: U.S. Geological Survey
Ecoregions Dataset: Resolve CC-BY 4.0
Additional Map Data: OpenStreetMap Contributors ODbL
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Boophis Bottae: Mika Andrianoelison WikiCommons CC-BY
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Unless stated above, all still images are used under license from Shutterstock.com. Thank you to everyone who makes their work available for use. Covering all of the wonderful species in these videos would not be possible without your incredible work.

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Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are the sources used to create the video.

Mammal species of Madagascar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_Madagascar
Bird species of Madagascar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Madagascar
Reptile species of Madagascar
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?location=Madagascar&submit=Search
Fish & Amphibian Species of Madagascar
https://eol.org/
Animals Endemic to Madagascar
https://lntreasures.com/madagascarl.html
Madagascar Protected Areas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_areas_of_Madagascar
Ecoregions of Madagascar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoregions_of_Madagascar
https://www.oneearth.org/
Animal Diversity
https://animaldiversity.org/
Madagascar Tourism
https://madagascar-tourisme.com/

Rainforests of Atsinanana
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1257
Masoala National Park
https://www.naturalworldsafaris.com/africa/madagascar/safaris-and-planning/masoala-national-park
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/93263-warmest-ocean
Green Sea Turtles
https://www.cms.int/iosea-turtles/sites/default/files/document/Madagascar_19_09_2014.pdf
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/reptiles/what-largest-sea-turtle-sea-turtle-size-comparison-chart
Aye aye
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/aye-aye
Chameleons of Marojejy
https://www.madcham.de/en/lokalform-marojejy/
Madagascar Snakes
https://www.wildmadagascar.org/wildlife/species/snakes/Leioheterodon_modestus.html
Madagascan Fire Millipede
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/giant-red-fire-millipede-madagascar-video
Giraffe Weevil
https://www.sfzoo.org/giraffe-weevil/
Analavory Geysers
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/cold-water-geysers-of-analavory/articleshow/36048741.cms
https://www.wondermondo.com/analavory-geysers/
Ranomafana
https://www.naturalworldsafaris.com/africa/madagascar/safaris-and-planning/ranomafana-national-park
Malagasy Paradise-Flycatcher
https://ebird.org/species/mapfly1

Full Source List (there were too many for the character limit so I've included a link to a Google Doc with the full source list for this video)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WkqPJsG8dHQxuP9HbmIuyBNIT8pi9z3yggmmn56azOk/edit?usp=sharing

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