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The Greatest Places on Earth Name student ID Xiaoming 1111111111?? ? Xiaoli ??????1111111112? Lily 1111111113 Tom 1111111114 MADAGASCAR Island Of Marvels Name：hahahahah Student IDIntercepted video clip from the movie Madagascar What are they? Where do they live? Why don’t the lion and the giraffe know them? Lemur Madagascar The geographic profile of Madagascar It is an island country in the Indian Ocean off the southeast coast of Africa. How is this island formed? A great slab of land break apart to form the continent as we know them today. Africa went one way and India went the other. And an orphaned chip of land was cast adrift, and ended up hundreds of miles from the nearest land. This island ark carries life found nowhere else. Baobab? Baobab?is the common name of a?genus?of?trees?(Adansonia). There are eight species, six native to?Madagascar, and one each to mainland Africa ?and?Australia. It is the national tree of Madagascar. Other common names include bottle tree, the tree of life, upside-down tree, and monkey bread tree. For most of the year, the tree is leafless, and looks very much like it has its roots sticking up in the air. Cactus lemur Here, where cactus(仙人掌)may grow as tall as a tree. The ring-tailed lemur has adapted from forest leaf eater to connoisseur of cactus. Lemur Ring-tailed lemur Mouse lemur They primarily eat fruit, although their diet also includes insects. Dwarf lemurs?are solitary but social, foraging alone but often sleeping in groups. Woolly lemurs?are nocturnal and typically give birth to one offspring, which they carry with them while foraging. Other animals Pygmy chameleon The world’s tiniest reptile It is scarcely bigger than an ant Strange white fish They not only lost all their pigment, they have lost their eyes too. Radiated tortoise They don’t become parent until the age of 20, and they may live to be 130. These are the ancient nest sites of an astonishing c