There is fossil evidence that many Malagasy Hippos were hunted by humans, a likely factor in their eventual extinction.

During that time, insurrections against the Malagasy Christians of the island, missionaries and foreigners were particularly terrible.

Factual information about the peopling of Madagascar remains incomplete, but much recent multidisciplinary research and work in archaeology, genetics, linguistics, and history confirms that the Malagasy people were originally and overwhelmingly Austronesian, native to the Indonesian archipelago.

Those new immigrants of the Middle Ages were a minority in numbers, yet their cultural contributions, political and technological to the neo-Vazimba and neo-Vezo world substantially altered their society and is the cause of the major upheavals of the sixteenth that led to the Malagasy feudal era.

Even prior to their eventual domination and unification of the entire island, the political and cultural activities of Merina royalty were to leave an indelible mark on contemporary Malagasy identity.

Between 80, 000 to 90, 000 Malagasy were killed during a year of bitter fighting.

The armed forces were involved in the 2009 Malagasy political crisis.

Madagascar was colonized, and during World War II over 46, 000 Malagasy soldiers were drafted to fight with the Allies, over 2, 000 of whom lost their lives fighting for France.

There were also several species of pygmy hippo on the island of Madagascar ( see Malagasy hippopotamus ).

Surrounding the walkthrough area, which would include the bats, were enclosures which would house the lemurs, Aye-ayes, Narrow-striped mongoose and Malagasy Giant Rats.

Malagasy Ambassadors to Europe, 1863 During the reign of Queen Rasoherina, ambassadors were sent to London and Paris and Sunday markets were prohibited.

Experiments were performed with Malagasy, Japanese, Breton, Portuguese, Yemeni and / or Congolese laborers.

The mouse lemurs were shown to avoid locations where they typically received rewards, as well as exhibit increased activity and anti-predator behavior, when the odor of predator feces were present in that vicinity, but not when the fecal odor of Malagasy non-predators was present.

In 1971 four de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters were acquired, allowing the airline to retire some DC-3s which were transferred to the Malagasy military.

The first Malagasy coins were issued in 1943 by the Free French.

Following emergency issues between 1914 and 1917 related to the availability of 5, 10 and 20 franc notes, distinct Malagasy notes were introduced in 1925 in denominations of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 1000 francs.

In Mananjary, hundreds of Malagasy were killed, among them 18 women and a group of prisoners thrown from planes.

The voices heard on this album were based on recordings of speech and singing in numerous languages: Aboriginal, Afghan, Arabic, Balinese, Buhndi, Chinese, Dutch ( Ethnicolor II-3: 15 ), English, Eskimo, French, German, Hungarian, Indian, Japanese, Malagasy, Malayan, Pygmy, Polish, Quechua, Russian, Sioux, Spanish, Swedish, Tibetan and Turkish.

Several Theologates and Universities were founded too: Enghien ( French Jesuits in exile in Belgium, 1887 ), Los Gatos ( California ), Kurseong ( India, 1888 ), Tananarive ( Malagasy, 1888 ), etc.

While most of the students were from the US, there were also Malagasy, Canadian and Norwegian students who went to this school, which from the 1960s to the end of the 1970s averaged 50 to 60 students per year in grades 1-12. Notable alumni include Dr. Carl Braaten, a noted Lutheran Theologian and co-founder of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology and the theological journal Pro Ecclesia, Arndt Braaten, a pastor and professor at Luther College, David Brancaccio of the PBS NOW program, Dr. Peter Dyrud, Minneapolis Cardiologist, Dr. Pier Larson, Professor of African History, Johns Hopkins and Dr. Stan Quanbeck, medical missionary to Madagascar for 40 years.

Eupleridae contains the fossa and the other smaller Malagasy carnivorans.

The Feloidea superfamily ( or Feliformia suborder )– Felidae ( cats ), Prionodontidae ( Asiatic linsangs ), Herpestidae ( mongooses ), Hyaenidae ( hyenas ), Viverridae ( civets ), and Eupleridae ( Malagasy carnivorans ), as well as the extinct family Nimravidae ( paleofelids ) – often have spotted, rosetted or striped coats, and tend to be more brilliantly colored than their Canoidean counterparts.

It is the only circulating currency other than the Malagasy ariary whose division units are not based on a power of ten, each ouguiya comprising five khoums ( singular and plural in English,, meaning " one fifth ").

Sambo is a very common name ( used both as a family name and as a first name ) in Madagascar and is also the Malagasy word for " boat ", used only for larger boats rather than canoes which are known as lakana.

More than 70 % of native population has Afro-Asian ancestry stemming from African, Malagasy, Indian and Chinese peoples, combined with additional French and British origins.

This is at approximately the same time as the Malagasy carnivorans, but is considerably more recent than the estimated colonization times of tenrecs and lemurs.

Miller points to the well-documented cultural links between Indonesia and the east coast of Africa ( e. g., the Malagasy language is related to Malay, both people use double outrigger canoes ), then posits that the use of the Monsoons began far earlier than previously thought, allowing traders to bring their spices westward perhaps as early as the 2nd millennium BC.

Grandidier's mongoose is larger than the related Broad-striped Malagasy Mongoose, G. fasciata, and its stripes are not as wide.

Vaγimba-" Those of the forest " in Proto – Southeast Barito ( a former Austronesian language whose modern branch called " Barito languages " includes the Malagasy language | Malagasy and the languages spoken by the Dayak people | Dayaks peoples of the Barito river in South Kalimantan | Borneo: ma ' anyan language | Ma ' anyan, Dusun Deyah, Dusun Malang, Dusun Witu, and Paku.

Limited sample size whole genome analysis of Malgasy individuals show that the African component of the Malagasy genome is most similar to modern Bantu language speaking East African populations.

The name Cilaos comes from the Malagasy word, Tsilaosa ( modern form: tsy ilaozana ), which means the place one never leaves.

The first settlers encountered Madagascar's abundance of megafauna, including giant lemurs, elephant birds, giant fossa and the Malagasy hippopotamus, which have since become extinct due to hunting and habitat destruction.

The first settlers encountered Madagascar's wealth of megafauna, including giant lemurs, elephant birds, giant fossa and the Malagasy hippopotamus, which have since become extinct due to hunting and habitat destruction.

A sister species of the pygmy hippopotamus may have been the little-studied Malagasy pygmy hippopotamus ( Hexaprotodon madagascariensis or Hippopotamus madagascariensis ), one of three recently extinct species from Madagascar.

The name " indri " most likely comes from a native Malagasy name for the animal, endrina.

According to an extensive new mitochondrial DNA study, native Malagasy people today can likely trace their heritage back to the 30 founding mothers sailed from Indonesia 1200 years ago.

* French King Louis XIV decided to abandon the colony which by then over 30 years had resulted in about 4, 000 French deaths ( and most likely even more Malagasy ) and cost its shareholders 10 millions livres ( over 1 / 7 the cost of what it took to build the Versailles Palace ).

Malagasy hip hop broke into the mainstream in the mid-nineties and has since skyrocketed to popularity through artists such as 18, 3 and Oladad, often blending elements such as Jamaican dancehall rhythm with traditional instruments and vocal styles.

Musical performance in the Highlands took on a distinctly political and educative role through the hira gasy ( hira: song ; gasy: Malagasy ).

More extreme cases of adaptive radiation exist in birds, but this process hardly ever occurs outside island groups like Hawaiian honeycreepers, vangas, Malagasy warblers or the famous Galápagos finches.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

Mauritania and Madagascar are the only remaining countries that do not use the decimal system ; instead, the Mauritanian ouguiya is divided into 5 khoums, while the Malagasy ariary is divided into 5 iraimbilanja.

Traces of this original culture have blended with successive waves of African, Arab, Malagasy and Shirazi immigrants.

Small numbers of Indians, Malagasy, South Africans, and Europeans ( mostly French ) live on the islands and play an important role in the economy.

The island may have been visited during the Austronesian diaspora around 700 AD, and some say the old Maldivian name for the islands originated from Malagasy.

It is the only known breeding site outside Aldabra and Madagascar for Malagasy Pond Herons.

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar ( ; ) and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa.

Other groups continued to settle on Madagascar over time, each one making lasting contributions to Malagasy cultural life.

The Malagasy ethnic group is often divided into eighteen or more sub-groups of which the largest are the Merina of the central highlands.

Malagasy and French are both official languages of the state.

In the Malagasy language, the island of Madagascar is called Madagasikara and its people are referred to as Malagasy.

Today the spirits of the Vazimba are revered as tompontany ( ancestral masters of the land ) by many traditional Malagasy communities.

The written history of Madagascar began with the Arabs, who established trading posts along the northwest coast by at least the 10th century and introduced Islam, the Arabic script ( used to transcribe the Malagasy language in a form of writing known as sorabe ), Arab astrology and other cultural elements.

Artisan missionary envoys from the London Missionary Society began arriving in 1818 and included such key figures as James Cameron, David Jones and David Griffiths, who established schools, transcribed the Malagasy language using the Roman alphabet, translated the Bible, and introduced a variety of new technologies to the island.

Malagasy troops fought for France in World War I.

The occupation of France during the Second World War tarnished the prestige of the colonial administration in Madagascar and galvanized the growing independence movement, leading to the Malagasy Uprising of 1947.

The Malagasy Republic was proclaimed on 14 October 1958, as an autonomous state within the French Community.

As Merina dominance expanded over neighboring Malagasy peoples in the early 19th century to establish the Kingdom of Madagascar, Antananarivo became the center of administration for virtually the entire island.

During the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia is " concerned by the increased frequency of attempts on the African continent to resort to non-constitutional methods of solving internal political problems.

This money is intended to secure Malagasy credit, and to cover additional financing gaps caused by recent natural disasters.

As such, it has committed a tremendous investment into Malagasy conservation efforts.