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This is a second take of #fluorite in #quartz from #Madagascar that I never published. This was #brightfield so that I could get those colors!
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Beautiful watercolours of Madagascar
Album by Henri Letrillard: 68 original photographs & 19 watercolours, signed with initials or full name. Oblong 4to. 1895 -1902.
A well-executed album compiled and drawn by Henri Letrillard, a French officer serving in Madagascar, transformed by the 19 watercolours in his hand, which are made with wit and vigour and vividly illuminate the domestic life of the military administration of the island.
The years 1896 to 1904 saw a series of insurrections led against the French military and other foreign influences. The French, using their experience in Indo-China used the counter-insurgency “oil-spot” principle, where secure bases were established, from which a ring of stability would spread. Letrillard appears to have served in two such settlements, Madirovalo and Namorako, both some way inland from the north-west coast. Both Madirovalo and Namorako had defended bases, with lookout towers, surrounded by wooden ramparts and drawbridges. These stockades are shown several times in his watercolours but not in the photographs, nor in any other photographs we have seen before of Madagascar.
The photographs capture scenes of daily life showing both settlers and natives, views of Diego Suarez, Vohemar, Nossi Bè [sic], Antananarivo and Mahajunga (sometimes spelt here Majunga), and one photograph of Djibouti. One large photograph is of a firing squad “le peloton d’éxecution” at Majunga: the victim is not in the frame, but the event is well attended by onlookers. The caption records the officer in charge of the firing squad was later killed by the enemy in Lampasika.
The album concludes with numerous shots of French soldiers at camp including an exceptional photograph of soldiers on a hunting trip, posing very theatrically in front of their tent.
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☆Madagascar Escape 2 Africa McDonald’s Toys - 2008☆
I had Alex, Marty, Gloria, and King Julien :)
I redrew an old picture of my grandpa and me for my mom. I wish I could’ve known him better
~ Chain
Red-spotted Bright-eyed Frog (Boophis rappiodes) offspring. © 2015 – Joshua Ralph – All Rights Reserved An interview with Joshua Ralph, Batrachologist and Conservationist with MantellaMan Conservation, an Amphibian Survival Alliance Partner. Amphibians the world over are facing probably the world’s most serious extinction crisis. What are your thoughts on the future prospects…
Orchids of Madagascar (Andasibe Region)
Hi Everyone, Slightly different to my regular form of blog entry, normally my posts are very diverse showin all forms of Malagasy fauna and flora. However, this tim I will be looking at one particular topic, the species of Orchids that can be found upon the islands. The Orchidaceae family, along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants on the planet with…
Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) at Menalamba – Video
Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca), insitu at the Menalamba locality within the Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve, eastern Madagascar.
Malagasy Striped Rain Frog (Plethodontohyla mihanika), at the Bakozetra locality of the Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve, Madagascar.
It is a member of the Microhylidae family and like a lot of species, very little is known about this one in particular.
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Threats to Madagascar’s Amphibians – Basic Run Down.
Over the course of our planets history, thousands upon thousands of species of Fauna and Flora has both flourished and blossomed into marvelous species that can be found today, or they have disappeared off the face of earth, either naturally over the course of time or faced severe threats caused by none other than our very own species. Homo sapiens throughout its existence, has caused the…
#MantellaMonday
Yellow Mantella (Mantella crocea) specimen.
Bakozetra locality, Torotorofotsy Wetlaands Reserve, Eastern Madagascar.
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Malagasy Nature Photographs – Bakozetra locality, Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve.
Hi Everyone, Within this photograph blog entry, I will be in the Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve, located north of the town of Andasibe. Continuing the day that I encountered one of Madagascar’s most iconic species of frog, the Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca), my guide Fanoo and I decided to travel slightly further north to a different part of the Torotorofotsy. Bakozetra is like I said,…
Malagasy Nature Photographs – Menalamba locality, Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve.
Hi Everyone, Within this photograph blog entry, I will be in the Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve, located north of the torn of Andasibe. Being one of my first days in Madagascar and with the breeding season of a few species I so desperately wanted to see nearly over, Devin Edmonds (Director of the ASACA facility in Andasibe) and myself made an attempted to find a species that pretty much kicked…
Red Horned Crab Spider (Gasterocantha sp.) insitu at Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar.
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Yellow Striped Bush Cricket (Tettigoniidae sp.), insitu at Mitsinjo (Analamazoatra) Forest Station, Madagascar.
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Cynanchum marnierianum is a strange member of the milkweed family originating in Madagascar. The plant consists entirely of leafless stems, usually more brown than green and largely looking dead. Even in growth it is hard to tell it is healthy. While it’s great fun to have pots of dead sticks, the actual flowering of this is more of a treat as the small blooms are unique green cage-like structures. I received my Cynanchum as roughly 6" cuttings, and after a few years and 2-3 feet of growth I finally had a flowering.
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More illustrations for HMH Productions on their @carmensandiegonetflix card game. Here are the next two little cityscapes, Antananarivo (Madagascar) and Brasília (Brazil).
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Sobennikoffia humbertiana
Wonderful orchid endemic to dry-yet-humid evergreen and deciduous scrubland in south-west Madagascar where it grows as a lithophyte and sometimes as an epiphyte. This is the first blooming on a plant raised from seed.
© Uluwehi Knecht
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A Prerequisite List of movies you need to watch to understand The Batman ( 2022 ) In a Better way
1. Madagascar ( 2005 )
2. Madagascar 2 ( 2008 )
3. Madagascar 3 ( 2012 )
4. Penguins of Madagascar ( 2014 )
i am giving you guys 3 Days to finish these masterpieces
Break out your favorite coloring tools on this #BotanicMonday! Botanical #SciArt of Macrostelia laurina, which is native to #Madagascar. This illustration comes from Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Ser. 2: T. 20 (1948). Contributed for digitization by Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (@le_museum) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54337749
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