What makes Madagascar unique?

Answer 1

Because madagascar spilt away from australia about 65M years ago, and drifted closer to africa. This means it has a completely unique flora and faune which doesn't resemble anything from africa.

Answer 2

The lemurs. Madagascar has them, together with the tiny Comoro Islands to its north provide the world's only present-day native habitat to lemurs. It's suggested that lemurs made their way to Madagascar from the larger African continent millions of years ago and have since adapted and evolved into the diverse number of species we see today.

There is also the ceremony of the turning of the dead, or famadihana. People save up for years to be able to dig up the bones of relatives and hold a party in celebration lasting several days. They wrap up the bones of the deceased and parade them about the village, telling him all the news since he died. It is forbidden to be sad on these occasions and people feast on zebus and other delicacies, laugh and make music. Malagasy people are remarkably musical and sing in four part harmony.

They have a number of indigenous instruments which are peculiar to Madagascar: the jejy voatova - a Betsileo instrument with a calabash resonator, large block frets on the neck and two sets of strings set at a ninety degree angle; the kabosy (mandoliny) - a four to six-stringed simple guitar; the lokanga - a three-stringed fiddle, found among the Antandroy and Bara; the marovany - a wooden box with a set of strings on both sides, common particularly in the south; the sodina - an end-blown flute; and the valiha - a kind of zither with 21 strings, traditionally made of bamboo. Another musical tradition is that of choral recitation to the accompaniment of music as a group of people move in a circle before an audience relating tales of their ancestors. This too is something which sets Madagascar apart from other countries.

Perhaps it could be claimed that Madagascar is unique too in being an African country with a largely Polynesian population and many customs which have been imported from the far east. It is, I believe, the only African country with water buffalos (zebus) and the only rice growing country in Africa.

Answer 3

Madagascar's long isolation from the neighboring continents (it is the oldest island in the world, isolated for at least 65 million years) has resulted in a unique mix of plants and animals, many found nowhere else in the world; some ecologists refer to Madagascar as the "eighth continent"

Answer 4

Because it is an isolated environment (an island), there are a lot of species there that are found nowhere else. It is the oldest island in the world (isolated from continents for at least 65 million years).

Answer 5

distinctive? distinctive from the Mainland of Africa? the perception that Madagascar replaced into an area of the African continent in the past the land mass moved aside over the years. as a effect the Island grew to become it particularly is own closed atmosphere with minimum motivated from the mainland.

Answer 6

It's the fourth largest island in the world, and is home to five percent of the world's plant and animal species : lemur, fossa, baobab trees. The Malagasy language is of Malayo-Polynesian origin, with practically no relation to other African languages.

Answer 7

you can go from rainforest to dessert in just 500km.

Madagascar only has 2 seasons

Answer 8

it has a movie named after it.

Answer 9

lemurs