Madagascar is an island country in the Indian Ocean just off the southeastern coast of Africa. It has been the inspiration for many documentaries and movies and is one of the most interesting and intriguing places on Earth. There are thousands of outstanding beautiful and amazing creatures of Madagascar, from creatures that crawl, walk, and fly around. All eat, breed, and live differently like the Blue Coua, Ring-tailed lemurs, and Comet Moths. Madagascar has only 258 bird species, although 115 of these are endemic. This magnificent place was once home to giant land birds, the largest of which weighed over 1,100 pounds (500kg). "Madagascar has more unique genera than any other African country. A blue coua has a royal blue circle around the eye. The Blue Coua stands ten feet ( three meters) tall" ( "The Real Animals...").These birds are not globally threatened they live freely and their families are small. " Blue Coua nests are bowls of twigs, on tress or bushes" ("Animalia Life"). Normally they live in subtropical or tropical dry forests, moist lowland forests, mangrove forests, moist montane forests. These birds like most birds with families and eat the same thing . " They eat insects, small reptiles, and fruits and lay one egg" ("Animalia Life"). Their subfamily is Phaenicophaeinae. The meaning of a …show more content…
Such a small window is a huge problem for getting the number of Lemurs in the
world to increase. “ Ring-tailed lemurs eat flowers, leaves, some tree sap, and fruit.
Tamarind tree seed pods are a favorite food” ( Student Animal Life…454). The gestation
periods can be as low as 54 days in some species. For others though it can be up to 135
days. show that the smaller the size of the Lemur the more young that will be
born at once. The smaller species will average two at a time but can have up to
six. The larger species typically have 1 offspring at a time but can have two.
The comet moth gets its name from its long, fluttering hind