In 1771, Frechman Philippe Comersen wrote of Madagascar; "I can announce to naturalists that this is truly their promised land. Here nature seems to experiment with designs different from any she has created elsewhere. At every step, one meets more remarkable and marvellous forms of life". More then two centuries later, Madagascar is still a world-renowned center for evolutionary study.

Eighty percent of Madagascar's plants and animals are endemic, existing nowhere else on earth. So what makes Madagascar's wildlife so special- The answer lies in the fact that the island has been isolated for over 150 million years. After breaking from the supercontinent "Gondwana", the island was left practically lifeless after the dinosaurs died out. A handful of lifeforms proved capable of reaching

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