Figure 1: Maximum likelihood phylogeny of Malagasy Carnivora and selected carnivoran outgroups. Visual inspection of the phylogeny used for the comparative age analysis (Fig. 3), wherein branches are ...

To the Westerner, many beliefs of the Malagasy, the people of Madagascar, boggle the mind. For starters, the Malagasy believe their ancestors live on in the afterworld, communicating with the living ...

As illustrated in this verse, the Malagasy language always had a strong tradition of oral expression. Kabary (lengthy speeches) are often given before any important familial or social events. However, ...

The people of Madagascar, surviving adversity with a smile. By THR Staff Crisis? What crisis? In Nantenaina Lova‘s debut film, The Malagasy Way, one hears residents of Madagascar (Malagasy is the ...

Andriamiranto Raveloson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

In the fight for conservation Madagascar is without a doubt on the front lines. Not only are most of its forests already destroyed—with a mere 10% of intact forest remaining at best—but there’s still ...

This paper gives an overview of the literature on Malagasy dialect variety and the various Malagasy dialect classifications that have been proposed. It rejects the often held view that the way ...

The life histories of slave descendants in Madagascar help us understand how legacies of slavery contribute to contemporary patterns of exploitation. They illuminate ongoing and everyday struggles ...

A group of women in a small village of Ambakivao, Menabe region in Madagascar have have volunteered to be the first "solar engineers" within WWF's access to sustainable energy program and in ...

The wilderness has its own ghosts, which come in the form of kalonoro, the so-called "wild men of the woods." The belief is pervasive in and around the Marojejy Mountains, which we'll visit on this ...