Departing from Amber Mountain, we head to the Ankanara Stone Forest Nature Reserve to investigate. Along the way, I saw a lot of chameleons crossing the road randomly, which was also too dangerous. The picture below is a carpet avoidance of jaywalking. It seems that the soil under its feet is not in the wild, but in the field. Yes, this is the terrible road of the Falklands, potholes, not as good as dirt roads. Obviously, it takes an hour's drive in China, and it takes 4-5 hours here.
After a long journey, I finally reached a rural hotel on the outskirts of the Stone Forest.
There are many palaces in the courtyard
As the luggage moved into the house, I found that my suitcase was flying with a swarm of flies, strange, no smell. As a result, I opened the box and found that the fly trap I was carrying had a very good effect. Attracted a bunch of orange small fruit flies.
After packing our bags, it was time for dinner, and at night we went out of the hotel to explore the surrounding bushes at night, and saw a bono lemur sleeping in a big tree.
Saw the super good-looking tiger striped shogunate
Unknown fruit
Cicadas close to the cockroach
Moths tortoises of some kind
Another species of rhinoceros turtle
A close relative species of bird-catching spider
green lacewing
Red bugs
After a night's rest, we entered the Stone Forest Reserve early in the morning. The first stretch of road is a hard dirt road
There are almost two kinds of scorpions under the roadside stones
Cross the riverbed of a seasonal river
Enter a deciduous forest
It was tiger armor flying all over the ground again
Day walk keeping the palace, the feeling is not a kind
It is also a close relative of cockroaches
Lin Xia saw the pygmy chameleon
Seeing a nest of bird eggs on the side of the road, the bird mother was too relieved and bold.
The larvae of some kind of butterfly
The road is full of this lizard
A blind snake that turns flesh color under the decaying wood
As he was turning over the decaying wood, the guide pointed to the top of his head and said, "Look, the lemur is sleeping."
Much like the chirping cicadas of Beijing
Blue long-bearded tiger armor is seen on the trunk
Finally out of the woods, I saw an endless limestone in front of me
Take a closer look at the limestone, which contains a lot of fossils of corals and currency worms
Suddenly, I saw a playful snail on a piece of limestone. Tropidophora cuveriana, a peculiar large snail known in Madagascar, is the largest individual the size of a child's fist.
There were countless dead shells, but after turning around the stone forest, I couldn't find a few with complete mouth covers.
The stone forest is a scenic spot, and there are not many animals and plants. Then it's back. On the way back to the bird's nest, the parent bird returned, and it was actually the nest of the Man Island Shou belt bird. Don't be afraid of people, macro shot enough
The wildflowers are nice and nice to watch
Some kind of fruit, ripe black, with seeds 3-4mm in size, sweet in taste, a bit like black dates, but more water than black dates. Do not know what plants
Some kind of orchid
Huge carpet chameleon
Another one
After eating in the afternoon, we went to the reserve on another road. It's a cave.
See two kinds of bats, one large and one relatively small. In fact, it is too far away to see what it looks like
There are a lot of cancer spiders in the cave
There are gobies in the small water in the cave
Freshwater shrimp
goby
Stove horse
Big bats
lemur
Wild Shakya, not yet ripe
Back at the hotel, I found that there were still many bugs in the hotel garden, and there was a flower tree in the hotel. Countless beetles
Flower golden turtle
Another flower golden turtle
weevil
Lijin turtle
Drop the third flower turtle under the flower tree
There are even tiger armor running on the flowers to join in the fun
I saw one of the most peculiar bugs collected this time, and after asking Teacher Cai, he said that it might be a species of the family Officinalis. It was so bizarre that I thought it was a reticulate bug.
Decaying wood armor
longicorn
Flower Tianniu, velvety texture
At night, a collection record was written at the door of the room, and the headlamp attracted the foot silk ants
The camel turtle was also attracted by the headlamp
The cockroaches were also attracted by the headlamps, and the trunks of the flowers were placed to pose
The stone forest is an arid area, and there are many pseudo-infantry
The local water resources are scarce, and the deep wells dug by the hotel are not only supplied to hotel guests, but also provide drinking water for local villagers free of charge. Unfortunately, this water is so dirty, the well water is full of muddy water.
There are mangoes everywhere in the hotel, idle to pick up a few to eat, the taste is very sweet and sweet.
There is a huge jackfruit tree in the middle of the hotel, on which countless nests of nest-weaving birds are busy weaving nests or incubating eggs
The nested bird eggs picked up under the tree are actually beautiful blue, which is so beautiful.
There are wild bee nests in any warehouse or corner of the hotel, and I began to think that it was semi-wild farming similar to the mountainous areas of China, but the boss said that last year there was not yet, and this year the house was occupied by bees for a long time, and it was cut honey in winter. This ecology is simply amazing!
The Stone Forest Expedition ended over
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Welcome to Madagascar Phase 4 AnkaraVanz Wetland National Park. The later updates are slower, as this week we are ready to leave Madagascar again, in the Falklands for the New Year.