Manongarivo Reserve is a wildlife reserve in the North-West of Madagascar in the region of Diana .
4-588: Manongarivo is home to both the Sambirano mouse lemur and the Sambirano woolly lemur . The reserve has a surface of 64,356 ha and is situated at 35 km from Ambanja . It has an elevation of 1013 metres. The vegetation is composed of low- and mid-altitude dense humid forest. Low-altitude, dry-transitional forest covers 18% of the reserve, and is dominated by trees of Canarium , Symphonia (and other species of Guttiferae), Terminalia , Ravensara and species of Sapotaceae, with smaller trees such as Phyllarthron in
8-465: Is a small, recently discovered primate and like the other mouse lemurs can only be found on the island of Madagascar . The dorsal side is both cinnamon and rufous-cinnamon and is grey ventrally. It has vibrissae that are dark in color. The species was discovered in northwestern Madagascar, in the Ankarana Special Reserve , where vegetation remains dense, after a survey was completed of
12-493: The area. It was named as a separate species at the same time as the Madame Berthe's mouse lemur ( Microcebus berthae ) and northern rufous mouse lemur ( Microcebus tavaratra ). Foliage tree sleeping sites prevent predatorial species interaction with Sambirano Mouse Lemurs. Sambirano mouse lemurs are endemic to Madagascar and are currently prone to extinction. Long term reforestation in northwestern Madagascar may facilitate
16-451: The subcanopy. There are about sixty species of birds in the reserve, thirty of which are endemic to Madagascar. Some of the species found in the reserve are: This Madagascar location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Africa protected areas related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sambirano mouse lemur The Sambirano mouse lemur ( Microcebus sambiranensis )
#390609