pictures: ranomafana in Madagascar

[last update Feb 22, 2014]
Below you will find a collection of photos from Madagascar. Pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler in 2009. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.

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Black and white marbled weevil (Curculionidae family)	Metallic turquoise and black spider	Elongate Leaf Chameleon (Brookesia nasus)
Deforestation near Ranomafana	Pollen's Vanga (Xenopirostris polleni)	Golden Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur aureus)
Golden Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur aureus) eating bamboo	Namorona River in Ranomafana	Male Red-bellied Lemur (Eulemur rubriventer)
Phelsuma	Namorona River in Ranomafana	Cricket
Helicophanta farafanganensis land snail, which eats moss and fungi and is hunted by the short-legged ground roller	O'Shaughnessy's Chameleon (Calumma oshaughnessyi)	Pink orchid (Eulophiella elisabethae), endemic to Madagascar
Golden Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur aureus) eating bamboo	Male Red-bellied Lemur (Eulemur rubriventer)	Beetle (Ranomafana N.P.)
Rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus), the source of vinblastine and vincristine, compounds used to treat Hodgkin's disease, childhood leukemia, and testicular cancer	Female Red-tailed Vanga (Calicalicus madagascariensis) holding a stick insect	Chute Andriamamovoka (waterfall) on the Namorona River in Ranomafana
Mantidactylus lugubris	Red flowers on a vine	Milne-Edwards' Sifaka (Propithecus edwardsi)
Black millipede with yellow legs	Researcher tagging a mouse lemur in Ranomafana for aging research	Mantidactylus melanopleura
Spider	Pink and purple insect with huge eyes	Milne-Edwards' Sifaka (Propithecus edwardsi)
Ranomafana rainforest seen from a lookout on the Valohoaka or Vatoharanana trail	Pink and orange spider	Tiny epiphytic ferns
Beetle	Chute Andriamamovoka (waterfall) on the Namorona River in Ranomafana	Scarab, family Scarabaeidae
Stick insect	Milne-Edwards' Sifaka (Propithecus edwardsi)	O'Shaughnessy's Chameleon (Calumma oshaughnessyi)
Wasp	Madagascar Pygmy-kingfisher (Ceyx madagascariensis)	Greater Bamboo Lemur (Prolemur simus) eating bamboo
Beetle with long antennae	Ranomafana rainforest	Milne-Edwards' Sifaka (Propithecus edwardsi) feeding
Spotted Jewel beetle (family Buprestidae, genus Polybothris)	Fly	Golden Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur aureus) eating bamboo