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Madagascar, the Indian Ocean an African island nation, is the United Nations recognized as the world's least developed countries, the entire national GDP to a County so many in our country, the services sector is the backbone of the economy of Madagascar, followed by agriculture and industry.

If you want to put poverty in Madagascar and other poor African countries in the same breath, then you are wrong, wrong!, in fact, this is a rich country, it should be said that the island has been a gift from nature, but, unfortunately, the island's political somewhat complex, the Islanders 98% plus the tribe, but slightly more affluent but a small number of foreign residents of 2%. Culture and politics behind the cause of this island State of poverty.

But poverty of Madagascar is a world full of funny, here you will see a lot more than you imagine things and things that make you a real eye-opener for small series lead you to a little funny to see the world!

First, Baobab: the world's most crude medicinal trees

Bread tree (source network)

Baobab tree trunks, less than 20 meters high, diameter but can reach 15 meters above the sea level, often to a dozen adults handle can be folded.

Crown diameter up to 50 meters above the sea level. Because it looks like a big fat, so the local residents call it the big fat tree, tree of elephant. 、

Monkey bread tree looks very strange, for which there is an old legend: when the waves Babcock tree in Africa for a short time, it does not listen to God's arrangement, but he chose to Savannah, which angered God it pulled up by the roots, then from this wave Babcock tree, inverted in the ground into a peculiar down trees.

Until today, it is still sparse distribution in African savannah, a unique landscape there. Savannah climate all year round hot, with distinct wet and dry seasons, the dry season when rainfall is rare. Monkey bread tree in order to be able to smoothly through the dry season, when the rainy season, they desperately water absorption, storage of the trunk of the mast. It looks like the xylem, porous foam which contains a lot of water, drought, has become one of the best sources of water. It has a lot in Savannah on travel in people with a life-saving water, save a life is in danger because of the thirst of the traveler, also called the tree of life.

In addition, the Baobab fruit is nutritious beverage and spice, the leaves are the locals favorite vegetables, seeds can do spices or of oil raw material, bark can be made of rope, chord and fibrous raw material, the trunk can even do a House residence hellip; hellip; in short, the monkey bread bushes to the outside, from head to foot to put large useful! in Madagascar, it is not only a source of food for animals, but also the world's most crude medicinal trees.

Second, the means the monkey: the world's smallest primates

Means the monkey (source network)

A monkey is the world's rarest mammals, is a kind of odd monkey, lemur in self-contained branch, alleges that monkey branch.

Means the monkey good night, with a pair of glare eye, face, such as cats, big head, small mouth, ear shape such as cats such as bats, teeth paws like squirrels, hand as manpower, they'll hand percussion trees to conclude that there is no worms in them. Currently the only remnant less than 80 monkey is endangered animals.

Means monkey in the past in the East of the island of Madagascar and the North-West, not understanding that everyone believes in monkeys are very small, could lie in a person's finger, in fact means a monkey with a cat so big, with a tail length of up to 1 m, weight 2 kg.

It looks like a small fluffy Fox, and the long tail, ears erect zuijian, big. It's best feature is that as long as the wire, the name also. In 1780, the explorers first means monkey France, thought it was a squirrel until 1860, taxonomists Anatomy authentication, just know it is the Primate.

Although a monkey is a very useful in forest ecological balance of the animal, but in Madagascar, it is the local people think is a bad thing, as the OWL in China, this is because their sounds nasty.

Means the monkey cry like a yell, like crying, gruesome at night, there are means monkey in black-grey, yellow eyes in the night in the mystery of the understatement, actions skip like a ghost, who also has some curiosity. Local people believe that if a monkey jumps to his death, is warning. Therefore, the locals see kill a monkey. And deporting monkey's body in the wood piles, hope this will bring bad luck away. Due to the large number of killings of human beings, means a declining number of monkey, plus 1500 years after Indonesia and other outsiders on the island, starting another large-scale deforestation, forest land to farm, Ranch, etc, so here's forest area in the very short period of time only less than 20% of the original, wildlife habitats disappear instantly. To the 1960s, a monkey is difficult to see. In 1966, two France biologists finally collected 9 only refers to the monkey and the stocking in the northeast of Fangyuan Madagascar 5 km of mangos than island. Find people at several later, never to see traces of wild means monkey. Currently, people can only be used in some of the Zoo to see a monkey.

Third, the lemur

: Most star temperament of the animals

Lemur (source network)

Do you remember the movie "Madagascar" inside the Group stared big eyes hard recognition of Aboriginal? they are cute lemur.

Lemur lives in Madagascar in the eastern region, they are used have echolocation ability of mammals.

Africa, Madagascar is the lemur's last refuge, with the exception of the island, which has a pair of beautiful eyes of primates have in other places on Earth.

Lemur is the most original of monkeys.

It's body shape and structure while the hands and feet as a monkey, but its features, but it is also like a Fox like a dog. Section tailed lemur, also known as Ring tailed lemur, Primate, lemur, true lemur Catta genus, scientific name, no subspecies Lemur. They sang a beautiful long tail, tail has a ring round black and white. They like the Sun, the Sun-Times back bow, much like a squirrel, reach out, enjoy the warmth of the Sun. Originally they were afraid of the cold, often several together tail around myself around peer, it can't tell the tail belongs to that only.

They are gentle, Hi clean, every theory of hair claws dressing.

On the Festival trail lemur, are born male, doomed to its life are second class citizens. In section Fox monkey society, women and children first is not contrary to law. From another perspective, section Fox monkey is unusual, they belong to the primates, is mankind the immediate ancestor of the animals.

3. turn the body section: the world's most horrific rituals

Turn the body section (the source network)

This is the Malagasy endemic in a representation to the memory of a deceased person and respect for customs.

Its turn dead as the name suggests, is the will of the deceased's body from the grave dug out, turn over to the body. This sounds rather find it difficult to understand even a little cruel. As it greatly goes against the rest of us are committed. Solid not, turn the corpse is the Malagasy expression of respect to the deceased, a special way, because the body remove again, you can let the living once again directly make offerings to the deceased, the second is the Malagasy people think dead in cold dark underground for a number of years, should also be dug out of the fresh air, the Sun.

Turn the body section of the General Council is held in the dead bury after a few years later, the need for health, will select in the dry season, and specific dates will be Mr. clan Feng Shui to select it.

Turn dead ceremony, the body will be carefully removed with linen wrapped and everybody's cordon procession of go. Period, the men and women are singing and dancing again, the more fun the more respect for the dead look, then come back to the graveyard (sometimes swap a new graveyard), replaced with new shroud. Buried under customs, body flips 7 times before they finally sealed soil. In short, the attention and cadaveric ceremony ritual degree and was buried there and not free.

Fifth, the circumcision: the world's most incredible adult ceremony

Circumcision (source network)

In Madagascar the local tradition, the boy soon after birth are required for circumcision operation, only in this way, the boys will only make a man.

Therefore, every year in June to September, during the dry season, people will take this time to birth or haven't circumcision of old boy converge and for circumcision ceremonies. This ceremony as a very important significance, so it is fun, people singing and dancing to celebrate, scale, or even thousands of people to participate. (This article by Tencent travel exclusive arrangement, such as all rights reserved. ）