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worth mentioning was a leaf-tailed gecko which was reputed as being the master of camouflage. The beautiful forest of Ranomafana was pleasant to trek safely in the daytime and also at night when nocturnal animals such as striped civet, brown mouse lemur, leaf-tailed gecko, and tree frog could be sighted.I ended my last visit to Madagascar at Ivolina Zoological Park near Toamasina, a seaport on the east coast, where I saw two endangered species of lemurs, white-frontedbrown lemur and crowned lemur, and also common brown lemur, a near-threatened species. A bonus was the sighting of the rare and critically endangered radiated tortoise of Madagascar.Madagascar can be reached by Air Madagascar which flies nonstop from Bangkok to Antananarivo where the adventure in the land of wildlife threatened species begins. White-fronted Brown Lemur Crowned Lemur40 Elite+
