Mitsinjo was recently graced by Dutch photographers René Krekels and Jap Smits. With the help of Christin Nasoavina, they put together the following video of their time in Andasibe. To see some more of their wonderful camera work, take some time to look at their YouTube Channel: R Kr
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Climbing the Rainforest Canopy 0
With its immense biodiversity and creatures that only live up here, the rainforest canopy is a world of its own. At Andasibe, Mitsinjo had first provided access to this unique world when teaming up with the tree climbing organization Mad’Arbres in 2005. Since then, Mitsinjo’s professional tree climbing brothers Eddy Manatijara and Dilfer Manantsoavina have …
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Birding in the Andasibe-Mantadia region 0
The region where Mitsinjo is based contains a number of rainforest and marsh sites which offer mind-blowing birding – a true ‘O.O.E.’ (Orgasmic Ornithological Experience in birder speak), to put it mildly.
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Reptiles 2
Roamed by ubiquitous chameleons and home to the beautiful Phelsuma geckos and their leaf-mimicking camouflaged Uroplatus cousins, Andasibe is a reptile treasure-chest. Almost two-thirds of all chameleon species occur in Madagascar, from where chameleons are thought to have radiated. In Andasibe, at least three species of the brownish terrestrial leaf chameleons and at least seven species of the colourful arboreal chameleons of the genera Furcifer and Calumma are found.
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Other Lemurs 1
Lemur research not only focuses on the large species such as Indria or Analamazaotra’s oddities such as a rarely seen orange colour variant of the Weasel Sportive Lemur. New insights often come from the small and supposedly unspectacular species.
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Stick Insects and Praying Mantises 2
Stick insects or phasmids (Phasmatodea) and praying mantises or mantids (Mantodea) both belong to a taxonomic construct called “Orthopteroidea”, with albeit uncertain affiliations. In both groups, females are much larger then males. In mantids, this sexual dimorphism can even lead to the smaller male being consumed by the voracious female during mating. Whereas mantids feed …
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Indri 1
Highly arboreal and primarily folivorous, Indri prefer young leaves of a wide variety of plant species, but will also feed on fruits and flowers. As in other primates, soil feeding as a potential remedy to toxins in its leafy diet has also been observed in Indri. Together with colleagues Junot and …
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Mushrooms 0
Due to the bounty of plant and animal life in Madagascar’s rainforests, mushrooms often escape the attention of the visitor. As fungi, they are indeed neither plant nor animal. Yet, their shapes and colours as well as their interesting biology can easily compete with the more noticed flora and fauna.
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Indri Conservation with Richard Sprenger 0
Richard Sprenger visited Andasibe, during which he made a fantastic video while being shown around by Mitsinjo guide Evariste.
Richard then very kindly offered full permission to Mitsinjo to use the footage on our website.
