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Marvellous Madagascar
From mountains and volcanos to rainforest and parched desert, Madagascar has a huge variety of different habitats. It has a fauna entirely of its own with animals that live nowhere else in the world, and long before Europeans visited the island, it had a reputation of containing weird mythical beasts.
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