Word: lemurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than France and Belgium combined, Madagascar had a highly developed form of law and government before the Europeans ever got a foothold there. Its people are not African, being predominantly of Malayo-Polynesian stock. Nor are its plants and animal life. Madagascar is the home of the wide-eyed lemur, of some 800 known varieties of butterflies, nearly 300 kinds of birds, half of which are found nowhere else. It is also the home of the once proud Merina tribe, which conquered the island at the end of the 18th century...