Monthly archives: January 2017

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Important taxonomic advances on the skinks of Madagascar 2

This entry was posted in Evolution Herpetology Science Taxonomy on 2017-01-10

December 2016 was quite a month for Madagascar-related publications. Hawlitschek et al. published (in early access) a paper on the biogeography of geckos of the genus Ebenavia (paywalled); Schulze et al. described the ‘remarkably dull’ tadpole of Mantidactylus grandidieri (PDF); and Prötzel et al. reported two cases of potential hibernation […]

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2016 Expedition to Marojejy 3

This entry was posted in Herpetology Landscape Photography Nature Photography News Photography Science Taxonomy Travel Photography on 2017-01-03

Marojejy is a rainforest-clad mountain massif in northeastern Madagascar. The park was established in 1952 as a strict nature reserve, but was changed to a national park in 1998[1]. Several notable biological research expeditions have been led to this mountain, the most significant of which was the Goodman expedition in […]

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