What is Madagascar famous for?

Answer 1

The human features of madagascar is that they have the ingredients to make things like: mint, soap, Table Tennis ball and chairs from oak wood.

Answer 2

The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth-largest island in the world, and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species, of which more than 80% are endemic to Madagascar. They include the lemur infraorder of primates, the carnivorous fossa, three bird families and six baobab species. (Wikipedia) For the source and more detailed information concerning your request, click on the related links section (Wikipedia) indicated directly below this answer section.

Answer 3

© A stunning diversity of plant and animal species found nowhere else evolved after the island broke away from the African continent 165 million years ago

© Population: 17,308,000

© Capital: Antananarivo; 1,678,000

© Area: 587,041 square kilometers (226,658 square miles)

© Language: French, Malagasy

© Religion: Indigenous beliefs, Christian, Muslim

© Currency: Malagasy franc

© Life Expectancy: 55

© GDP per Capita: U.S. $800

© Literacy Percent: 69

© It has a mountainous central plateau and coastal plains

© Most of the population depends on subsistence farming, based on rice and cattle, with coffee, vanilla, and seafood being important exports.

© French colonial rule began in 1896; independence came in 1960.

© In 1990, after almost 20 years of Marxism, Madagascar lifted a ban on opposition parties, and a new president was elected in 1993.

© Elections in 2001 resulted in a period of civil unrest, lasting for several months, until Marc Ravalomanana was declared winner of the presidential election.

© Environmental degradation is a major concern as damaging agricultural practices cause deforestation, soil erosion, and desertification.

© The island is heavily exposed to tropical cyclones, which brought destructive floods in 2004.

© Industry: Meat processing, soap, breweries, tanneries

© Agriculture: Coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves; livestock products

© Exports: Coffee, vanilla, shellfish, sugar, cotton cloth, chromite, petroleum products.

© Best known for its lemurs (primitive relatives of monkeys, apes, and humans), colorful chameleons, stunning orchids, and towering baobab trees, Madagascar is home to some of the world's most unique flora and fauna.

© Almost all of Madagascar's reptile and amphibian species, half of its birds, and all of its lemurs are endemic to the island; meaning they can be found nowhere else on earth.

© Because of Madagascar's geographic isolation, many groups of plants and animals are entirely absent from the island.

© Missing on the island are the many species of large mammals - antelopes, elephants, zebras, camels, giraffes, hyenas, lions and cheetahs - that roam continental Africa today.

© Hippos, similar to those that occupy the Nile River basin today, apparently swam to Madagascar sometime during the Tertiary era. Their descendants underwent dwarfing and evolved into species unique to the island.

© When humans first arrived on Madagascar, there were at least 50 lemur species living on the island, the largest of which rivaled the body mass of a male gorilla or orangutan.

© There were huge tortoises, giant predatory raptors, and pygmy hippopotamuses.

© There were gigantic Flightless Birds called elephant birds. These birds were larger than any other birds - living or extinct. They were heavier than the famous 10-foot-tall moas of New Zealand. The eggs of elephant birds could hold the fluid contents of about 180 chicken eggs!

Answer 4

Madagascar is famous for its rare animals. About 75% of the animals found in Madagascar can't be found anywhere else in the world.

Answer 5

Madagascar has unique species because it was once part of the supercontinent pangaea and when it broke apart, unique animals stayed there.

Answer 6

One of it's biggest feature, is that it's considered to be the largest island in the world. just off lower Africa, in the In the South Pacific Ocean

Answer 7

Millions of years ago, this island broke away from Africa and stayed apart from the rest of world. As a result, many of its plants and animals are found nowhere else.