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February 03, 2013

Lemurs in Madagascar
There are about 30 to 35 different types of Lemurs but there has been so many new species that they are not sure how many there is exactly. In Madagascar there is about 11 different kind and some of them are about to be instinct depending on the area they live in due to environmental changes.
The biomes in Madagascar are several depending what part we are looking at. One biome that they have is savanna, they have tropical weather and grasslands with trees. In the other areas where there are changes it is dessert biome, they have dry areas, where there is hardly trees, but they have a lot of dirt. Madagascar is going through environmental destruction caused by humans,

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