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    The Kirindy Forest (or Kirindy Private Reserve) is a private nature reserve situated in western Madagascar, about 50 km northeast of the town of Morondava...
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    those of the Telfair's skinks, the Livingstone's fruit bats and in the Kirindy Forest, the home of a rare and colourful bird collection. The webcam lets viewers...
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    primate in the world. This is because specimens of M. berthae captured in Kirindy Forest, 60 km north of Morondava, were erroneously named M. myoxinus. Apparently...
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    primate is found chiefly in the Kirindy Forest in western Madagascar. After its discovery in 1992 in the dry deciduous forest of western Madagascar, it was...
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    ecology, and mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences of specimens from both Kirindy Forest in central-western Madagascar and around Ambato in northwestern Madagascar...
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    young do return to the same den. The home ranges of male fossas in Kirindy Forest are up to 26 km2 (10 sq mi) large, compared to 13 km2 (5.0 sq mi) for...
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    Verreaux's sifaka (category Madagascar dry deciduous forests)
    van Schaik C.P. (2007). "Bimorphism in Male Verreaux's Sifaka in the Kirindy Forest of Madagascar". International Journal of Primatology. 28: 159–182. doi:10...
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    Park, males and females exhibit daily, rather than seasonal torpor. At Kirindy Forest, both sexes share the same daily torpor, yet during the dry season (April/May...
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    enacted laws to protect the giant rat. Much of their territory is now the Kirindy Forest Reserve where sustainable forestry is practiced. The government has...
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    soil, ground litter and rotten wood from fallen trees. A study in the Kirindy Forest revealed that its diet consists foremost of invertebrates. It feeds...
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    Andranomena Reserve. Kirindy Forest at 20°04′12″S 44°36′07″E / 20.070000°S 44.601944°E / -20.070000; 44.601944 (Kirindy Forest) is a nature reserve...
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    still be found in Kirindy Mitea National Park, just south of Morondava, though at very low densities. It does not occur in Kirindy Forest Reserve, north...
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    during two expeditions in the 1970s and a more extensive 1998 study in Kirindy Forest. Like the other cheirogaleids, these lemurs are nocturnal, sleeping...
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    The Kirindy Mitea National Park is a national park on the coast of the Mozambique Channel, in south-west Madagascar. The 72,200 hectares (178,000 acres)...
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  • frog in the family Mantellidae endemic to Madagascar, known only from Kirindy Forest in central-western Madagascar and Réserve Naturelle Privée de Berenty...
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    species from the coua genus in the cuckoo family that is endemic to the dry forests of western and southern Madagascar. It is suggested that couas probably...
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    forest. May, 2006 Ankarana Reserve, Parcs et reserves de Madagascar, le site officiel Anjajavy Forest Google satellite map Further detail on Kirindy and...
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    genetically distinct species. An adult female collected on 2 December 2010 from Kirindy Reserve was designated as the holotype specimen of P. rennerae. The specific...
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    Menabe Antimena (category Forests of Madagascar)
    area of dry forest, succulent woodland, mangroves, and secondary grassland and scrub. It includes the northern portion of the Kirindy Forest and the Avenue...
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    Coquerel's coua (category Madagascar dry deciduous forests)
    It is endemic to Madagascar. Its habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It was named in 1867 by the French naturalist Alfred Grandidier in honor...
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    "Rainforest" suggests, the nominate subspecies O. r. rutilus prefer humid tropical forest and bush and occurs in the east of the island, whereas the Torotoroka subspecies...
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  • different forested as well as non-forested zones, from 0 to 870 m in elevation. It is also known to occur in the general vicinity of the Kirindy Forest north...
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    in the west of the ecoregion, includes the northern portion of the Kirindy Forest. Large areas have been illegally logged, burned, and converted to maize...
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    At Kirindy Forest At Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, showing a false eye on top of head The collared iguana is found in the western tropical forests of...
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    Baie de Baly National Park Bemaraha National Park Isalo National Park Kirindy Mitea National Park Lokobe National Park Mantadia National Park Marojejy...
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    the severity of this has not been assessed. Front facing specimen at Kirindy Forest Dorsal view of a wild adult Adult being handled in Berenty Reserve Wikimedia...
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  • discovered Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, the world's smallest primate, in Kirindy Forest. Carwardine is shocked at the disappearance of the island's rainforests...
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    River Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve Andranomena Reserve Kirindy Forest Avenue of the Baobabs, 20 km north of Morondava. Roman Catholic Diocese...
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  • Rakotoniaina Kalambatritra Reserve Kasijy Reserve Kingdom of Madagascar Kirindy Mitea National Park Lake Alaotra Lake Ihotry Lake Itasy Lake Kinkony Lake...
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    agriculturally used area. Both western localities, Kirindy and Mikea, are in dry forest. In Kirindy, the pipistrelle Hypsugo anchietae has also been recorded...
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