Madagascar wildlife

25/05/2024

The green crater lake of . What a wonderful sacred place in the Vakinankaratra region 🌋🗻.

11/05/2024

11 mai : Journée mondiales des oiseaux migrateurs
Madagascar possède 284 espèces d’oiseaux dont 117 sont endémiques, environ 80 sont migrateurs.
Volez petits et grands oiseaux, revenez nous vite !!!!
Madagasikara dia manana vorona 284 karazana : ny 117 dia tsy fahita raha tsy eto amintsika irery ihany; ny 80 amin’ireo dia vorona mpifindra monina.
Ndao ho arovana izy ireny !
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11/05/2024

Carpet chameleon (Furcifer lateralis) along the way. The endemic chameleon of Madagascar.
Ambatomanga May, 2024.

10/05/2024

10/05/2024

🦎9 mey : Andro iraisam-pirenena ho an’ny tanalahy🌿

🤔Ny tsara ho fantatra momba ny tanalahy🦎

👇Manasa anao hanjohy ny rohy👇 https://wildlifemadagascar.org/news-and-stories/international-chameleon-day/ ahitana karazana fitaovana maro mahakasika manokana ny tanalahy

03/05/2024

African migrant, African emigrant, or common vagrant (Catopsilia florella). A butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in Africa (including Madagascar), Arabia (United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman) and the Canary Islands. Like Catopsilia pomona, this species also has a habit of migration.
Tanjombato... April 2024.

02/05/2024

Known as the plain tiger, African queen, or African monarch (Danaus chrysippus).
Andohalo... April 29th,2024.

02/05/2024

Anosy lake, 8-like lake.
MASINDRAY

02/05/2024

Mascarene Policeman (Coeliades ramanatek ramanatek).
A butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. Regional endemic, It is only found on Madagascar and the Comoros(Coeliades ramanatek comorana) .
Ambatomanga...May1st, 2024

28/04/2024

Malagasy grass yellow (Eurema floricola floricola).
This subspecies of grass yellow is found on Madagascar and eastern Tanzania.
Tsimbazaza April 2024.

28/04/2024

Triangles or semi-looper (Trigonodes hyppasia). A moth in the family Erebidae. It is largely cosmopolitan found in almost all African countries and other part of the world.
Antananarivo (Mahitsy Rn4)
April 27th 2024.

28/04/2024

Common evening brown (Melanitis leda)
Tsimbazaza April 2024.

28/04/2024

Samoina, Verdant hawk moth (Euchloron megaera lacordairei), a subspecies mostly found in Madagascar, Mayotte, Mohéli and Anjouan from the family Sphingidae. That family includes Euchloron which is a monotypic moth genus but contains about more than 1450 species and subspecies.
Analamahitsy, April 27th 2024

18/04/2024

Painted lady (Vanessa cardui). Butterfly from the Nymphalidae family. It's one of the most widespread of all butterflies 🦋.
Adult butterflies feed on flower nectar and aphid honeydew. Groups of two to eight painted lady butterflies have been observed to fly in circles around each other for about one to five seconds before separating, symbolizing courtship. Groups of butterflies usually will not fly more than 4.5 m away from the starting point. To establish and defend their territories, adult males perch in the late afternoon in areas where females are most likely to appear. Once the male spots a female of the same species, he begins pursuit of her. If the foreign butterfly is a male, the original male will give chase, flying vertically for a few feet before returning to his perch.
Manazary Masindray, April 2024

15/04/2024

When you love the nature, it will helps you to have a better life in many ways. When you destroy the nature, it's like your ruined yourself to live in the ugliest life.
Soavina Tanjombato, April 2024.

15/04/2024

Seychelles giant tortoise or Seychelles domed giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa), it was introduced to Madagascar during the royal period.
This Giant tortoises are among the longest-lived animals on the planet. Some individual Aldabra giant tortoises are thought to be over 200 years of age, but this is difficult to verify because they tend to outlive their human observers.
Tsimbazaza, April 2024.

14/04/2024

Foniala 🕸
Male of Madagascar Golden Orb Spider (Nephila madagascariensis)
A fairly common spider across Madagascar.
Tsimbazaza, April 2024.

14/04/2024

12/04/2024

A cuckoo wasp or emerald wasps (Stilbum viride). This stunning wasp from the family Chrysididae is an endemic species to Madagascar.
Ferm d'Antanandrano, April 2024.

12/04/2024

Male blue-tailed damselfly or common bluetail (Ischnura elegans) is a damselfly, belonging to the family Coenagrionidae.
These damselflies can be found in a wide range of lowland environments, with standing and slow flowing waters, brackish and polluted water.
Ferm d'Antanandrano, April 2024.

10/04/2024

Ny vary / Rice (Oryza sativa).
It's time to harvest, sooner people will be hectic in the paddy field euphorically.
Belanitra betsimitatara, April 2024.

09/04/2024

These are some photos of different morphs of Mascarene grass frog or Mascarene ridged frog (Ptychadena mascareniensis) , it's a species of frog in the family Ptychadenidae found in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and Mauritius.
Ptychadena Mascareniesis is the only American amphibian species thought to occur on Madagascar and on the Seychelles and Mascarene island.

Madagascar was populated by Ptychadena frogs before the arrival of humans 2000 years ago.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swamps, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, shrub-dominated wetlands, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, sandy shores, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, heavily degraded former forest, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.
Ambivihy Soavina, April 2024.

31/03/2024

The cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni) is a medium-sized moth in the family Noctuidae, a family commonly referred to as owlet moths. Its common name comes from its preferred host plants and distinctive crawling behavior. Cruciferous vegetables, such as cabbage, bok choy, and broccoli, are its main host plant; hence, the reference to cabbage in its common name. The larva is called a looper because it arches its back into a loop when it crawls.

31/03/2024

Sun rise
Early bird view from the village of Ambohipo.

19/03/2024

Madagascar red Fody in the antenna ❤️
Ambohipo, March 2024.

17/03/2024

Good book for nature lovers.

15/03/2024

Elephant eared chameleon (Calumma brevicornis)
Waterfall of Andriamamovoka Anjiro.

15/03/2024

Cycas thouarsii
Sambaina rn2, March 2024.

14/03/2024

The village of Sambaina Manjakandriana.
Ambohimanjaka Sambaina, March 2024.

14/03/2024

Four-lined Plated Lizard (Zonosaurus quadrilineatus). An endemic Lizard of Madagascar.
Ambatovinaky, March 2024.