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Fossa in Madagascar
Where to spot the fossa in Madagascar, and how to log the discovery in Catch'Um.
Cryptoprocta ferox
Finding Fossa in Madagascar
Looking for the fossa in Madagascar? Start with Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, where access and habitat make a sighting more likely than a chance roadside glimpse.
Andasibe-Mantadia National Park in Eastern Madagascar is the place to begin. Rainforest reserve where indri lemurs' haunting calls carry for kilometres, and night walks may reveal aye-ayes tapping for grubs. Give yourself quiet time at dawn or dusk and keep your distance.
Madagascar context: Lemurs in the baobabs, chameleons in the spiny forest, and wildlife found nowhere else on the planet.
In Madagascar, look especially around dry forest, rainforest, and spiny forest edge. Those settings usually put you closest to where this species is active.
Where to spot one
Andasibe-Mantadia National Park
Eastern Madagascar
Rainforest reserve where indri lemurs' haunting calls carry for kilometres , and night walks may reveal aye-ayes tapping for grubs.
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