But Madagascar still boasts a panoply of unique plants and animals, from numerous species of baobab trees and endemic orchids to chameleons, giraffe-necked weevils and the bizarre-looking aye-aye.

Madagascar's wildlife is almost wholly unique to the island. You've probably heard of lemurs, but how about tenrecs? Vangas? Mesites? Have you ever seen a giraffe-necked weevil? An octopus tree?

Madagascar was only colonised by human ... Some of its critters are just plain weird There’s the giraffe-necked weevil, whose appendage helps it roll leaves into tubes for its eggs; the aye ...

I visited Madagascar a little over three years ... For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The Giraffe-necked Weevil was an insect like no other. The size of a beetle ...

But Madagascar still boasts a panoply of unique plants and animals, from numerous species of baobab trees and endemic orchids to chameleons, giraffe-necked weevils and the bizarre-looking aye-aye.

is native to the island of Madagascar, a hotspot of biodiversity. Other native animals include lemurs, a catlike carnivore called a fossa, the giraffe weevil and many species of geckos.

The knights are not humans but New Zealand giraffe weevils, a species of beetle with a snout like a lance. The biggest males snout-wallop each other until the other either retreats or is knocked ...

Smaller male New Zealand giraffe weevils use their diminutiveness to their advantage to mate with females under the noses of their larger peers. Males of many different species fight to win or ...

Jousting weevils are impressive enough, but it turns out they have another whopping distinction: Possessing one of the biggest ranges of body sizes on Earth. Only the closely related giraffe ...

With a size difference of 26 times for males and 22 times for females, the jousting weevil has one of the largest variations on Earth, Somjee said. It’s second to only the giraffe weevil of New ...