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July 13, 2009 2:48 PM

It's Pronounced "FOO-sa"

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

My friends managing the My Wonderful World blog posted an interview today with ecologist, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, and all-around great guy Luke Dollar. He describes his decision to pursue a career in conservation science after finding a forest he wandered in as a child abruptly clear-cut, his work with Madagascar's fossa (the island's largest endemic predator—it's pronounced "FOO-sa"), grassroots efforts to engage the Malagasy people in wildlife conservation, and citizen science with EarthWatch volunteers.

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Don't Rake This Leaf

Posted By Valerie C. Clark - Biologist

Lately, National Geographic has helped fund my research on toxic frogs in Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park. On a prior trip to that park, I encountered several snazzy reptiles to admire, including the aptly-named leaf tailed gecko, Uroplatus phantasticus, pictured above.

No, that brown thing in the foreground isn't a leaf—that's really the gecko's tail! This leaf mimic is soft and fleshy and feels like velvet.

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