Word: flora
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...photos of Madagascar's flora and fauna here...
...have never much believed in natural selection, a trip to Madagascar would likely change your mind. The flora and fauna here, having developed for some 80 million years in virtual isolation from the rest of the world, have taken some curious evolutionary turns. The nocturnal aye-aye, for instance, has a long, skeletal middle finger that enables it to retrieve grubs from inside trees; the hook-billed vanga evolved a curved bill for a similar reason, while the horned-leaf chameleon can change color to match the dead leaves on the floor of western Madagascar's dry deciduous forest...
...Click here for pictures of Madagascar's flora and fauna. Click here for pictures of primates on the danger list. See TIME's pictures of the week here...
...that the local color Chettri paints with can sometimes be disorienting, if not frustratingly inaccessible, for a foreign reader. Certain domestic images are familiarly rustic - there are granaries and millstones, and whitewashed homes with butter churns, milk pails, earthen hearths and chaff-filled pillows. But other features, particularly indigenous flora, are harder to visualize, even with translator Michael J. Hutt's detailed endnotes. Bhorla, angeri leaves, chilaune trees - without an illustrated field guide, a foreign reader is simply lost...
...Gucci, Giannini worked her magic with the Flora print, an iconic design created as a scarf for Grace Kelly in 1966. As Ford was churning out the label's black-on-black nightclub vibe, Giannini splashed the happy flowers onto Gucci's bags. "There were so many people who said, 'Maybe it's too pretty for Gucci.' But to me, it was such an important design. So light in a way, but with a good energy," Giannini says. The Flora became one of the most successful products in Gucci history, a fact not lost on Gucci management or industry analysts...