Finally returned home from Malaysia. Continue winter vacation Madagascar expedition travelogue, Ranu Mafana
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Leaving the AnkaraVanz Reserve, we headed towards the capital. Stop by another famous sanctuary. It is the Ranumafana Sanctuary. The rainforest here is very well protected and the basic settings are very perfect. Many foreign scientific research surveys are conducted here. Examples include the recent discovery of new species of frogs and peeling geckos.
On the way to Ranumafana see the peculiar river, muddy
Our vans run freely on the plateau, stopping for a break to take pictures. As a result, when I got out of the car, I hit a small bird in the front of the car, pulled it out to see that it was dead, and I didn't know when I hit it, there was no sound at all. In silence. It seems that you have to drive and watch out for wild animals.
Alpine meadows near the capital
Passing the small town of Antsirabe on the way, hurry up and take a look at my favorite mineral jewelry mini market. There are various mineral crystal fossils sold inside, and there are often less common falkland fossil species in China.
This ammonite fossil, with an attached oyster fossil on the outer skin, is the first time this has been seen.
The Malaysian restaurant next to the small market is very tasty, especially his beef tongue is a hundred praises, soft rotten and sticky.
Leaving Ancerabe, walking through the countryside, the scenery is extremely beautiful, and the heart is relaxed.
Halfway through, I came across an open-air essential oil workshop, and the distilled essential oils were of extremely high quality and produced very low. Wrapped all the essential oils round on the spot. 10-20 ml is about 50 or 60 yuan.
It is the essential oil extracted from this plant. Those who understand plants give a scientific name.
In the afternoon, I finally arrived at the Lanumafana Rainforest and continued to stay in the rainforest hotel where I stayed. The setting is superb and the hotel is situated within the rainforest.
After eating, start the lighting. Use a tall inlet insect trap cloth
While waiting for the bugs to light up, we walked around the hotel. Come to the famous brand at the entrance of the hotel, the comet silkworm moth made of tin is the star species of the hotel.
The rock crevice above the brand grows beautiful hydrangea flowers with strange colors.
As a result, a tree frog was seen underneath the hydrangea flower
For more than an hour, it turned back to the white cloth of the lamp, and the insects exploded. There are so many more bugs than last year's lures.
Various mantises
Idle nothing to tease the praying mantis, photograph a variety of mantis alert gestures.
A variety of bugs, there are many hunting bugs
Beautiful species of the bug family
Strange turtle bugs
A variety of golden turtles
This golden turtle is very peculiar
The black dung also came
Huge gill turtles hide in dark corners
Finally came a big horned rhinoceros turtle, some kind of moth tortoise
The types of Celestial Bulls attracted by the lights are also rich and colorful
This flower Tianniu is super beautiful
The huge white-striped Celestial Bull genus, the color of the stripes when alive is very bright, and when it dies, it fades.
The family Buchthoridae also attracts a lot.
Tiger armor
Super gorgeous catcher
Another type of tiger armor
Minions
Through the edge of the rifle
Partial whiskers
My favorite qingbujia came to one, which is very similar to the one in Yunnan
There are also strange large percussions
Not at all like the beetle's short-winged beetle
Triacone
Quasi-step armor
Pseudo-ladybugs
firefly
Volume elephant
Some kind of snicker
All kinds of gorgeous Guo Gong insects
Beautiful moths came quite a bit
A certain kind of ladybug everywhere in Madagascar feels like a heterochromatic ladybird in the country.
Some kind of small strong
The dung fly began to become a real fly
The lamp lured for more than an hour tired, with a flashlight everyone went up the mountain to explore the night. Just after entering the rainforest from the hotel's uphill path, you will see a famous leaf-tailed gecko, super protective color. If it weren't for the crooked body, it wouldn't be found directly on the bark.
Encounter huge snails on the way
Compare the size in your hand.
Rainforest is another kind of snail.
See a small frog on the top of the leaves
Miserable white xiaoqiang, the color is very peculiar.
Behind the leaves are brightly colored wide-winged wax cicadas, the first time I have seen such a beautiful species.
Some kind of stick insect, covered with thorns, mimetic lichens or moss.
At this time, our spider teammates made a major discovery and found the star species of the spider world---- ancient spiders. The cephalothorax is slender like a giraffe, and the jaw is slender. There is no distribution record in China.
After exploring the rainforest night for more than an hour, we returned to the hotel and saw the lamp lure in a strange creature cricket, a huge palate, like fangs.
The slender-nosed wax cicada that the lamp induces is actually an extension of the head, not the nose.
Big-eyed locusts, short-winged adults.
Licao, so beautiful. At night, the lights continued until 3 a.m. before going to bed.
The next day I slept until noon, got up and pulled directly to the town of Ranumafana for lunch. It was actually the Horse Island shrimp I had been looking for, and I didn't expect to meet on such an occasion. Rushed into the kitchen, only to be all cooked
Another species of giant river prawn
After eating, some of my teammates went directly to the rainforest to investigate, and I and another teammate who loved fishing looked for the right river to fish. I also took a look at the insects on the river beach.
A relatively large river
Transform into a masked man in the sun.
Idle and bored, I patted the water-sucking African Dharma butterfly.
There are a lot of small fish in the water, and when they are fished out, they look like medaka fish
Shrimp cages of locals were found along the river, and there were a lot of African stream crabs in them, which were very brightly colored
There were also fish in the shrimp cage, which looked like some kind of Horse Island cichlid
At this time the teammate's fishing rod fished, lifted up to look, scared silly, huge gobies!! The largest species of goby family I have seen so far.
The weather was too sunny, leaving the river, and as a result, just arrived in the town, Cumulonimbus came. A fierce sun rain is coming.
After the rain quickly cleared and continued to be exposed to the sun, we asked the local guide to take us to find the Falkland shrimp
Along the way, you will see two small species of flowered golden turtles
Waist stripe day line keep palace
Saw the Celestial Bull and was about to take off
Entering the depths of the forest, the guide said that the shrimp production area was there, and saw that Madagascar had hemp and small. Hurry up and take a picture.
There are scorpions in the decaying wood on the side of the road
Next we went to the hot springs, the stream near the hot springs was beautiful
On the wooden railing there is another kind of four-eyed sunshine keeper
I put down a fish cage in the stream, and in a short time I brought up hundreds of arrowtail medaka, which I thought was a native species, but many friends said that the origin of this fish is American. It seems that the invasive species are very serious.
Finally we left Ranumafana to see the Great Waterfall of Ranumafana. Right on the observation deck we found a pair of thorny stick worms
During the dry period, there is almost no waterfall feeling.
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Leaving Ranumafana, we headed to our next stop, The Anga Sanctuary.
In addition, I also went to Ranumafana last February 2016, but there are many animals I saw at the time and many of them now, and the biodiversity of the rainforest is too good.
If you are interested, you can check out this link, another of Ranumafana's expedition travelogues