Field-Based Research and Educational Writing on Madagascar's Lemurs, Their Habitats, and the Conservation Questions That Determine Whether the Species Survive the Coming Decades
Plate 01
Each entry includes diagnostic features observed in the field and synthesised from the literature.
Wildlife photography
Family: Wildlife
Coastal belt
How to
Family: Wildlife
Northern range
Best wildlife
Family: Wildlife
Western range
Wildlife photography:
Family: Wildlife
Eastern range
Why national
Family: Wildlife
Highland zone
National parks
Family: Wildlife
Coastal belt
How to
Family: Wildlife
Central plateau
Best national
Family: Wildlife
Southern range
National parks
Family: Wildlife
Northern range
Why eco
Family: Wildlife
Western range
Eco tourism
Family: Wildlife
Eastern range
How to
Family: Wildlife
Highland zone
Best eco
Family: Wildlife
Coastal belt
Eco tourism:
Family: Wildlife
Central plateau
Order: Anura
52 species documented
Order: Diptera
3 species documented
Order: Lepidoptera
3 species documented
When the species hasn't been identified yet, start with the diagnostic feature most readily observed at a distance.
Look for distinct horizontal bands across the dorsal surface — diagnostic at any age.
Where: Found in canopy zones
A raised crown or crest above the head — visible even from below in flight or perch.
Where: Forest edges + clearings
Sexes differ in coloration — males brighter; the species pair should be identified together.
Where: Mid-canopy, mixed forest
Concentric rings on tail or limbs — narrow alternating bands count as the diagnostic feature.
Where: Understory + rocky outcrops
A long, thin bill or muzzle — separates this group from the broader-billed relatives.
Where: Aquatic + wetland margins
Short, sturdy build — markedly smaller body-to-head ratio than the larger congeners.
Where: Ground-dwelling, leaf litter
— Field naturalist —
Based: Antananarivo, Madagascar
Lemurs of Madagascar — *research-grounded field writing on Madagascar's lemur species, their habitats, and the conservation questions that determine whether they survive*.
The literature on Madagascar's lemurs is extensive in the scholarly press and almost entirely absent from the public-facing writing about Madagascar's wildlife. Most of what general readers encounter about lemurs is either tourism marketing or a small set of species profiles that have been recycled across enough nature-magazine outlets that the actual field-research record gets obscured.
I write what a careful natural-history publication would write about Madagascar's lemurs if such a publication existed for general readers. Field observations sit alongside literature synthesis. Methodology is explained when it matters for understanding the conclusions. The conservation picture is treated soberly because the situation is serious and oversimplified treatments have not helped the species or the public understanding of what conservation work actually requires.
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One careful dispatch a month — new species profiles, methodology notes, and the questions that came up in the field.
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