The Madagascar Rainforest

Where is it located?

What type of Rain Forest is it?

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Plants

• More than twelve thousand
• Baobab Trees
• Orchids
• Ravinala Palms
• Madagascar Periwinkle Plant

Madagascar Periwinkle Plant

• AKA Catharanthus Roseus, Rose periwinkle, and Rosy Periwinkle
• Native to madagascar
• Grown at other places for medicine
• Treats cancer

Animals

• Mongoose
• Fossas
• Civets
• Fanaloucs
• Bats and Rodents
• And others

Lemurs (most famous)

• Most are endangered
• Some extinct
• About 100 spiecies
• 5 different families
• The Lemurids, Ruffed lemurs, Ring Tailed, Bamboo Lemurs, And Brown Lemurs

Sakalava (native people)

• live in western 3rd of Madagascar
• Name means "people of the long valleys"
• Arrived by boats from various southeast Asian groups

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