Explore Madagascar's Ankarana
- By Peter Tyson
- Posted 01.20.04
- NOVA
Located near the northern tip of Madagascar, Ankarana ("an-KAR-ana") is a place like no other on Earth. It is a spectacularly eroded limestone massif shot through with caves, forest-filled canyons, and underground rivers. Certain plants and animals found here, including a species of blind shrimp, live nowhere else in Madagascar, much less the world. There are also lemurs, chameleons, and the world's only known cave-living crocodiles. In this slide show, explore this otherworldly region, one of the finest natural treasures on an island rich with them.
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Investigate an otherworldly landscape and the lemurs, chameleons, crocodiles and other animals that live within it.
This feature originally appeared on the site for the NOVA program Secrets of the Crocodile Caves.
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- © Peter Tyson/WGBH/NOVA
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