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Animals of Madagascar

Madagascar has animals found nowhere else: lemurs, the aye-aye and the indri, the cat-like fossa that hunts them, and tenrecs.

It's a short list, but a useful one, because "Madagascar" is often the clue that settles a game.

7 animals, A to Z.

• 🐾Aye-ayeMadagascar.
• 🐾FossaForests throughout Madagascar, from western dry forests to eastern rainforests and southern spiny forests.
• 🐾IndriLowland and mountain forests along the east coast of Madagascar.
• 🦧LemurSouthern Madagascar, from gallery forest to spiny scrub.
• 🐾MudskipperThe Indo-Pacific and the Atlantic coast of Africa. One widespread species runs from East Africa and Madagascar to Southeast Asia, northern Australia, southern China and Samoa.
• 🐾TenrecMadagascar; the tailless tenrec was also introduced to the Comoros, Mauritius, Réunion and the Seychelles.
• 🐂ZebuThroughout the tropics: South Asia, China, Africa and Madagascar, and in large numbers in Brazil.

How each answer is decided: How we answer. Every animal, in one list: All animals.