Mooching in Madagascar

I recently returned from a short stint of fieldwork in Madagascar. The purpose of our trip was to run some behavioural tests of echolocation in tenrecs but things didn’t exactly go according to plan. Therefore we had plenty of time to explore and experience some of the wonders of the 8th continent.

Here’s a few of our wildlife highlights…

Shower lizard
Our friend from the shower
Spider webs
Enormous spider webs which span an entire river bed!
Moth case
Case from a bagworm moth
Indri
Spot the Indri (like four year olds in panda suits..)
Tree frog
What a poser
Chameleon
Just hanging around
Camouflaged frog
Spot the frog
Red bellied lemurs
Inquisitive red bellied lemurs (Eulemur rubriventer)
Hemicentetes semispinosus
Tenrec in a bucket! Hemicentetes semispinosus

 Author and Images: Sive Finlay, sfinlay[at]tcd.ie, @SiveFinlay