File:Distribution of Animals - Madagascar.jpg

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Scene in Madagascar, with characteristic animals.

  • Foreground: aye-aye (as Chiromys madagascariensis)
  • Distance: river-hogs (as Potamochœrus edwardsii
  • Large bird: Euryceros prevosti
  • Bird beneath: Vanga curvirostris
  • Bird in right hand corner: Leptosoma discolor
  • Fan-shaped plant on the left: traveller's tree (as Urania speciosa)
¹ Nowadays thought to have been introduced to Madagascar by humans
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Source The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Vol. I: Project Gutenberg : Internet Archive
Author Alfred Russel Wallace. Illustration by Johann Baptist Zwecker (1814–1876).


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