The area of Ihazofotsy offers different landscapes… mainly dry forest which is spiny forest. In addition there is some kind of a “close-to-river-vegetation”, which I called that way as there is supposed to be gallery forest, which unfortunately in this area is not existant anymore. We had four main transects in which we worked. One was just across the river on the northern side of the river, one east of the camp, one in the west and another one a few
kilometers in the southwest. One day we were in transect B and
Oliver suddenly yelled out and we thought he must have found something cool, but as he is also interested in insects and stuff which we don’t find just as exciting we asked: “What did you find…. Anything interesting?”. “You won’t believe it!” “What? Is it something we haven’t found before? A boa or a radiated tortoise?” “Better! Much better… you won’t believe it!” “Well what is I then…?” “You can’t believe this! You can’t believe I found this here!” “A Penguin? ^^” “Nearly! I’d say better than a penguin!” This certainly had our attention by then so we went to have a look and what we saw was something like shown in the picture… … … … … Ole and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes. I’m sure this is somehow exciting as he says things like that
shouldn’t be able to survive in the dry forest but seriously… like a penguin? A penguin would have been way cool and not just being a penguin in a dry forest, but thinking of the film “Madagascar” it would have been hilarious. But instead we got that thing whatever it is exactly. The one on the photo is actually a second one that I found later. Took a photo just in case it really is something great to find but honestly I couldn’t really be bothered too much by a slimey looking thing like that. lol
The area of Ihazofotsy offers different landscapes… mainly dry forest which is spiny forest. In addition there is some kind of a “close-to-river-vegetation”, which I called that way as there is supposed to be gallery forest, which unfortunately in this area is not existant anymore. We had four main transects in which we worked. One was just across the river on the northern side of the river, one east of the camp, one in the west and another one a few kilometers in the southwest. One day we were in transect B and 
Oliver suddenly yelled out and we thought he must have found something cool, but as he is also interested in insects and stuff which we don’t find just as exciting we asked: “What did you find…. Anything interesting?”. “You won’t believe it!” “What? Is it something we haven’t found before? A boa or a radiated tortoise?” “Better! Much better… you won’t believe it!” “Well what is I then…?” “You can’t believe this! You can’t believe I found this here!” “A Penguin? ^^” “Nearly! I’d say better than a penguin!” This certainly had our attention by then so we went to have a look and what we saw was something like shown in the picture… … … … … Ole and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes. I’m sure this is somehow exciting as he says things like that 
shouldn’t be able to survive in the dry forest but seriously… like a penguin? A penguin would have been way cool and not just being a penguin in a dry forest, but thinking of the film “Madagascar” it would have been hilarious. But instead we got that thing whatever it is exactly. The one on the photo is actually a second one that I found later. Took a photo just in case it really is something great to find but honestly I couldn’t really be bothered too much by a slimey looking thing like that. lol
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What an unusual looking creature. lol
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