#madagasacar

[travelella]

Black Tsingy, Madagasacar

Lesly Derksen

[ramerison-blog]

(english) Here’s my first radio interview. What a weird thing to me beeing exposed. I did and I still do my art in my room. It’s like an infinite introspection. Of course I decided by myself trying to live by art and I exposed my work before my first exhibition but everything is being serious now. I’m an artist for the others and I feel like I wanna do anything else.

(français) Voilà ma première interview à la radio. C'est une chose étrange que d'être exposée pour moi. J'ai toujours créer dans mon intimité. Évidemment, j'ai toujours montré mon travail afin d'avoir des retours, mais c'est toujours resté très personnel. Aujourd'hui, les choses commencent à prendre un tournant plus “sérieux”, et ce n'est pas pour me déplaire, j'ai choisi de faire de ma passion mon métier. Mais vous savez c'est drôle parce que c'est comme si on me considérait comme une athlète parce que je n'ai jamais arrêter de marcher…

[themandalalady]

2016-067 - Coquerel's Sifaka Mandala

2016-067 – Coquerel’s Sifaka Mandala

Coquerel’s Sifaka – photo by Kevin Schafer

This week’s MotD theme: Round Critter Faces

Washington natural history photographer, Kevin Schafer, captured this amazing photo of a Coquerel’s Sifaka, a medium-sized lemur of the sifaka genus Propithecus, native to Madagascar. What a lovely round face, with all of those round features, including its penetrating round yellow eyes. Until today I had yet…

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[zutelight]

This photo of Gernaine a 25 year old noma patient was taken during an assignment to document the situation for people in need of surgical care in Madagascar. Noma is an acute gangrenous infection affecting the face and requires cranio-facial surgery beyond the scope of a normal Operation Smile mission. She has been placed on the waiting list of the World Care program for patients requiring complex surgeries with longer recovery times. www.lightfootphoto.com

[furfeatherscales-blog]

Lavasoa Dwarf Lemur Rediscovered

Madagasacar, is the place of the recent discovery of a type of dwarf lemur that has been previously thought to be extinct. Now, there are estimations of only 50 left.

Lemurs, are primates that are found in only Madagascar, found this creature. They have found this lemur in 3 different forests and are naming Lavasoa dwarf lemur.

Scientists believe that they have been tricked into thinking they were extinct because of their secretive lifestyle, and being nocturnal with living up on top of the forest canopy, filling their time with hiding in burrows or hollowed out trees for several months of the year.