You’d better bring a magnifying glass when visiting Madagascar.

Its unprecedented nature harbours some of the smallest animals in the world:

  • the smallest primate: a mouse lemur with a body length of 9-9.5 centimetres and a weight of 30 grams (microcebus berthae),
  • the smallest chameleon (brookesia micra), without its tail about 16 mm long;
  • the smallest bee (Liotrigona bitika) with a body length of less than 2 mm.;
  • and many of the Malagasy frogs belong to the smallest in the world.

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Those small animals are not the easiest to spot, but to search and to find is very rewarding.

 

Recently we discovered a chameleon laying eggs in our garden. We have never seen this before, so we quickly got our camera and made a little video.

Of course we will keep you updated as soon as the eggs are being hatched.