Portal:Madagascar/Did you know
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- ... that France's Madagascar expedition of 1883 (bombing action pictured) was triggered by the will to remove British economic and religious influence from the island of Madagascar?
- ...that Bemaraha Woolly Lemur, a Madagascar lemur species discovered in 1990 and formally described in 2005, is also called Cleese's Woolly Lemur, after John Cleese, due to his fondness for the creatures?
- ... that the type specimen of Kinkonychelys represents the first turtle skull described from the pre-Holocene era in Madagascar?