MADAGASCAR is renowned for its unusual animals, particularly its lemurs, a group of primates extinct elsewhere on the planet.

Huge ( to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar.

产于马达加斯加岛现已绝种的巨型鸟（可达9英尺）。

In a report he wrote for the South Australian Register, Carl Liche, a German explorer, claimed that while exploring Madagascar, he'd witnessed a woman climb the trunk of a large plant and drink its nectar.

卡尔·利歇一位德国探险家，他在写给《南澳大利亚记事报》的一篇报道里称，他在马达加斯加岛探险的时候，看见一个妇女爬上一种大型植物的主干去喝它的汁液。

Small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca.

土产于马达加斯加岛的直的一年或多年生的小的属；广泛地移植在热带地区；以前分在长春蔓花。

Possibly, then, Madagascar was colonised by an errant slave ship.

那马达加斯加岛就可能是一艘迷途的奴隶商船的殖民地了。

Small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar.

在非洲和马达加斯加岛的灌木和藤蔓植物和乔木的小的属。

Civet of Madagascar. Wellington, the capital city, lies on the North Island.

马达加斯加岛的灵猫。首都惠灵顿位于北岛。

The outlet is building a relay station in Madagascar, which will open a door the Muslim world.

该电台的信号输出口修建在马达加斯加岛的一个驿站，这将打开穆斯林世界的大门。

The species like many other lemurs, like many other animals in Madagascar, like so much of life on Earth is endangered and dwindling fast.

这一物种，就像其它狐猴，其它生活在马达加斯加岛的动物，其它存在于地球上的生命，正面临着数量急速减少，甚至于灭绝的危险。

The southern half, Gondwana, was drifting into an eastern segment that would form Antarctica, Madagascar, India and Australia, and a western portion that would form Africa and South America.

南部的冈瓦纳大陆继续漂移，其东段最终将形成南极洲、马达加斯加岛、印度和澳大利亚，而西部则形成非洲和南美洲。

The amusement park is daring customers to eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach in exchange for unlimited line-jumping privileges.

这家游乐园鼓励游客吃下一只活生生的马达加斯加岛蟑螂，以此换取在游乐园免排队的优惠权。

Megaladapis edwarsi could have traveled on all fours much like an orangutan.Humans arrived in Madagascar about 2000 years ago.

就像猩猩一样，巨狐猴可能是四足并用地走路。大约2千年前，人类的足迹渐现于马达加斯加岛。

In the spring we left Africa and sailed round the island of Madagascar into the Indian Ocean.

春天里我们离开了非洲绕着马达加斯加岛进入印度洋。

This gremlin-like creature is an Aye-Aye& a type of lemur normally found only in Madagascar.

这种小鬼似的动物叫指猴，它是狐猴的一种，生活在马达加斯加岛。

A large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks.

非洲和马达加斯加岛的一种大型棕榈，长的羽状复叶，叶茎含有能带来巨大经济利益的纤维。

Gifford and his colleagues In the study found that the island of Madagascar lemurs Chinchilla.

吉福德和他的同事们研究在马达加斯加岛发现的灰鼠狐猴。

Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog.

马达加斯加岛食虫并体表经常带刺的小哺乳动物；与刺猬形似。

The enthusiasm that many Malagasy seem to have for spreading their new and fecund friends around the country, to provide an additional" crop", may thus backfire.

马达加斯加人想让他们新的、繁殖力强的朋友撒遍全国，提供一种附加的“作物”的热情可能产生适得其反的效果。

Other notable Welsh philologists were missionary David Jones who first put the Malagasy language of Madagascar into writing;

另外一些著名的威尔士语言学家包括传教士大卫琼斯，以文字书写马达加斯加语的第一人；

Zimmerman studied Malagasy populations on Madagascar.

齐默曼研究了马达加斯加上土地上的马达加斯加人。

One of the rarest land tortoises in the world, this beautiful animal has been diminished by the fires which Malagasy farmers use to promote the growth of grasses that their cattle like to eat.

世上罕有的陆地龟，马达加斯加人为了让他们饲养的家畜所吃的草更加繁盛而放火烧林，使得这种漂亮的动物逐渐减少。