Madagascar

Madagascar is legendary for its profusion of wildlife and flora, 80% of which is found nowhere else on earth.

Isolated from the continents 160 million years ago, Madagascar followed a unique evolutionary path into enormous tortoises, elephant birds, and lemurs. Lemurs were the highest primate form on the island until the Malagasy people, of Afro-Polynesian ancestry, arrived a mere 2000 years ago.