"was released to theaters on May 27, 2005. Despite its mixed critical reception, it was a success at the box office. The film launched a franchise with a series of films, including the sequel """" in 2008 and another film """" in 2012. A spin-off featuring the series' penguin characters, ""Penguins of Madagascar"", was released on November 26, 2014. At the Central Park Zoo, Marty the zebra is celebrating his tenth birthday, but has grown bored with his daily routine and longs to experience the wild. Marty's best friend is Alex the lion, who enjoys showing off for the public"
"Megalomys desmarestii Megalomys desmarestii, also known as the Martinique muskrat, Desmarest's pilorie, or the Martinique giant rice rat, is an extinct rice rat from Martinique in the Caribbean. It was among the largest species of West Indian rice rat, as big as a cat, and was one of the first Caribbean mammals to become extinct during the 20th century. It may have been aquatic, as it was known to escape into the sea when pursued by predators, but it never swam away from the island. It was common on Martinique until the end of the nineteenth century, when attempts were"
"Madagascar (franchise) Madagascar is a computer-animated franchise produced by DreamWorks Animation. Voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith are featured in the films. It began with the 2005 film ""Madagascar"", the 2008 sequel """", and the third film """" in 2012. A spin-off film featuring the penguins, titled ""Penguins of Madagascar"", was released in 2014. A fourth film, ""Madagascar 4"", was announced for 2018, but has since been removed from its schedule due to the studio's restructuring. The overall plot through the series follows the adventures of four Central Park Zoo animals who have spent"
"Pluto (Disney) Pluto, also called Pluto the Pup, is a cartoon dog created in 1930 at Walt Disney Productions. He is a yellow-orange color, medium-sized, short-haired dog with black ears. Unlike most Disney characters, Pluto is not anthropomorphic beyond some characteristics such as facial expression. He is Mickey Mouse's pet. Officially a mixed-breed dog, he made his debut as a bloodhound in the Mickey Mouse cartoon ""The Chain Gang"". Together with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and Goofy, Pluto is one of the ""Sensational Six""—the biggest stars in the Disney universe. Though all six are non-human animals,"
"of its extinction. Megalomys desmarestii Megalomys desmarestii, also known as the Martinique muskrat, Desmarest's pilorie, or the Martinique giant rice rat, is an extinct rice rat from Martinique in the Caribbean. It was among the largest species of West Indian rice rat, as big as a cat, and was one of the first Caribbean mammals to become extinct during the 20th century. It may have been aquatic, as it was known to escape into the sea when pursued by predators, but it never swam away from the island. It was common on Martinique until the end of the nineteenth century,"
"by poachers. The crate containing Alakay falls into the ocean and drifts to New York City, where he is renamed Alex and grows up at the Central Park Zoo with Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe, and Gloria the hippopotamus. Years later, following their adventure in Madagascar, the zoo animals—Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, the penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private, and chimpanzees Mason and Phil—prepare to return to New York aboard a battered airplane piloted by the penguins, accompanied by the lemurs King Julien XIII the ring-tailed lemur, Maurice the aye-aye, and Mort the mouse lemur. The plane runs out"
"the Canary Island skink (""Chalcides viridanus viridanus""). The only mammals native to the park are bats, the most common species of which is Leisler's bat (""Nyctalus leisleri""). Other mammals such as the mouflon, the rabbit, the house mouse, the black rat, the feral cat, and the Algerian hedgehog have all been introduced to the park. The similarity between environmental conditions and geological Teide National Park and the planet Mars have turned this spot volcanic reference point for studies related to the red planet. The analogies between the red planet and parts of Tenerife make the island the ideal place for"
"Madagascar (2005 film) Madagascar is a 2005 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. It was directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath from a screenplay by Mark Burton, Billy Frolick, Darnell, and McGrath, and features the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, and Jada Pinkett Smith, with Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, and Andy Richter voicing secondary characters. The film's plot revolves on four animals from the Central Park Zoo who unexpectedly find themselves stranded on the island of Madagascar, and must learn to adapt to the wild. ""Madagascar"""
"The Penguins of Madagascar The Penguins of Madagascar is an American CGI animated television series that had aired on Nickelodeon. It stars nine characters from the DreamWorks Animation animated film ""Madagascar"": The penguins Skipper (Tom McGrath), Rico (John DiMaggio), Kowalski (Jeff Bennett), and Private (James Patrick Stuart); the lemurs King Julien (Danny Jacobs), Maurice (Kevin Michael Richardson), and Mort (Andy Richter); and Mason (Conrad Vernon) and Phil the chimpanzees. Characters new to the series include Marlene the otter (Nicole Sullivan) and a zookeeper named Alice (Mary Scheer). It is the first Nicktoon produced with DreamWorks Animation. The series was executive"
"belongs to Marty on the beach, and concludes that his friends are there too, and goes off to find them. In the jungle, he helps different animals with their tasks, and in return they give him his friends' whereabouts. He finally reunites with his friends. They go search for help, and find an entire tribe of lemurs having a party. The lemurs introduce themselves, and explain that the island they are on is called Madagascar, but as they talk, they are attacked by the Fossas, the enemies of lemurs. The animals protect the lemurs, and then start helping the lemurs"
"belonging to the subfamily Nesomyinae. They include the large, endangered Malagasy giant rat. Due to their ability to fly, a greater variety of bats have reached the island. However, only about a third of these are endemic, a lower proportion than in other groups of land mammals. There are eight members of the Carnivora on the island, all now classified in the endemic family Eupleridae. The cat-like fossa is the largest of these. Lemurs: As of 2008, there are officially 99 species and subspecies of lemur, 39 of which have been described by zoologists between 2000 and 2008. Of the"
"island, Marty begins to regret his decision to leave the zoo. The penguins, having been to Antarctica and found it not to their liking, land the ship at Madagascar. Seeing this as a chance to return Alex to New York, Marty rushes after his friend against the wishes of Melman and Gloria. Marty attempts to convince the now grizzled, starving Alex to return, but Alex refuses out of fear of attacking Marty again. The penguins, Gloria, and Melman go to find Marty, but are trapped by the fossa. At the last minute, Alex overcomes his predatory instincts and scares the"
"Margay The margay (""Leopardus wiedii"") is a small wild cat native to Central and South America. A solitary and nocturnal cat, it lives mainly in primary evergreen and deciduous forest. Until the 1990s, margays were hunted illegally for the wildlife trade, which resulted in a large population decrease. Since 2008, the margay has been listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List because the population is thought to be declining due to loss of habitat following deforestation. In his first description, Schinz named the margay ""Felis wiedii"" in honour of Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied who collected specimens in Brazil."
"the Antilles. Circa 31 mammal species are found on the island, four of which (the red-tailed squirrel ""Sciurus granatensis nesaeus"", the eastern cottontail rabbit ""Sylvilagus floridanus margaritae"", the white-tailed dear ""Odocoileus virginianus margaritae"", and the capuchin monkey ""Cebus apella margaritae"") are endemic subspecies, with the main populations located inside the national park. The Margarita capuchin monkey is considered to be the country's most threatened primate species and is critically endangered. La Asunción La Asunción () is a city in Venezuela. The capital of Nueva Esparta state (made up of three islands), it lies on the Isla Margarita in the Caribbean"
"also stories of an indri that helped a human down from a tree, so they are seen as benefactors. Other lemur ""fady"" include the belief that a wife will have ugly children if her husband kills a woolly lemur, or that if a pregnant woman eats a dwarf lemur, her baby will get its beautiful, round eyes. Lemurs have also become popular in Western culture in recent years. The original 2005 animated film ""Madagascar"" was seen by an estimated 100 million people in theaters and 200–300 million people on DVD worldwide. Prior to this movie, ""Zoboomafoo"", a Public Broadcasting Service"
"and a merchandise shop ""Madagascar Cargo Hold"". Madagascar (franchise) Madagascar is a computer-animated franchise produced by DreamWorks Animation. Voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith are featured in the films. It began with the 2005 film ""Madagascar"", the 2008 sequel """", and the third film """" in 2012. A spin-off film featuring the penguins, titled ""Penguins of Madagascar"", was released in 2014. A fourth film, ""Madagascar 4"", was announced for 2018, but has since been removed from its schedule due to the studio's restructuring. The overall plot through the series follows the adventures of four"
"including all of the nonflying native mammals, are descendants of ancestors that survived rare rafting or swimming voyages from Africa (likely aided by currents). As of 2012 it has over 200 extant mammal species, including over 100 species of lemurs, about 300 species of birds, more than 260 species of reptiles, and at least 266 species of amphibians. The island also has a rich invertebrate fauna including earthworms, insects, spiders and nonmarine molluscs. Lemurs have been characterized as ""Madagascar's flagship mammal species"" by Conservation International. In the absence of monkeys and other competitors, these primates have adapted to a wide"
"stork, Stanley crane, cattle egret, dromedary camel, wolf guenon, DeBrazza's monkey, klipspringer, Madagascar ground boa, Madagascar tree boa, ostrich, African grooved frog, Lady Ross turaco, Aldabra tortoise, African wild dog, African pancake tortoise, Sudanese plated lizard, and African Slender-snouted Crocodile. Tasmanian devil, koala, echidna, Matschie's tree kangaroo, saltwater crocodile, lorikeet, carpet python, princess of wale's parakeet, wompoo fruit dove, emu, red kangaroo, laughing kookaburra, budgerigar, Micronesian kingfisher, palm cockatoo, Major Mitchell's cockatoo. Asian elephant, Bactrian camel, snow leopard, Malayan tiger, red panda, king cobra, reticulated python, Indian python, wrinkled hornbill, pygmy slow loris, slow loris, orangutan, siamang, Komodo dragon, Chinese"
"alligator, takin, Mandarin duck. Polar bears. Bobcat, cougar, copperhead, milk snake, garter snake, desert tortoise, alligator, bison , black-tailed prairie dog, California sea lion, Mexican wolf, bald eagle, great horned owl, roadrunner, axolotl, golden eagle, turkey vulture, tiger salamander. Caribbean flamingo, scarlet ibis, golden lion tamarin, spider monkey, howler monkey, Cuban amazon, hyacinth macaw, scarlet macaw, golden-collared macaw, Andean tinamou, vine snake, blue poison dart frog, green anaconda, angelfish, toco toucan, sunbittern, red-bellied piranha, emerald tree boa, tree boa, boa constrictor, dwarf caiman, jaguar, ocelot, two-toed sloth, military macaw, Andean condor, caracara, thick-billed parrot, hawk-headed parrot, cotton-top tamarin, sun conure."
"spent their lives in comfortable captivity, and are unexpectedly shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar. The film was a commercial success, grossing over $532 million worldwide. """" is a 2008 computer-animated comedy/adventure film, and the sequel to the 2005 film ""Madagascar"". Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, the film continues the adventures of Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria, who try to fly back to New York, but they crash-land in Africa. The film grossed over $603 million worldwide, which is higher than its predecessor. """" is a 2012 computer animated comedy film, and the third installment in the series,"
"fish-eating rat (""Neusticomys venezuelae""), MacConnell's climbing mouse (""Rhipidomys macconnelli""), the guinea pig ""Cavia guianae"" and Simon's spiny rat (""Proechimys simonsi""). Common species include South American tapir (""Tapirus terrestris""), collared peccary (""Pecari tajacu""), pale-throated sloth (""Bradypus tridactylus""), long-tailed weasel (""Mustela frenata""), short-eared dog (""Atelocynus microtis""), bush dog (""Speothos venaticus"") and three species of small cats of the Leopardus genus. There are many reptiles and amphibians. Snakes include fer-de-lance (""Bothrops asper""), palm pit-vipers (Bothriechis species), coral snakes (Micrurus genus), boa constrictors (Boa constrictor) and bushmasters (""Lachesis muta""). There are many green iguanas (""Iguana iguana"") and tegus lizards (Tupinambis genus). 486 species of"
"Tinian monarch, the bridled white-eye and the golden white-eye. Other common, but introduced species, include the collared kingfisher, the rufous fantail, the fairy tern and the uniform swiftlet. The Mariana fruit bat is endemic to both Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The sambar deer is the largest mammal and lives on several of the islands. The monitor lizard, ranging up to 3 feet long, is also present on the island of Rota. The oceans are home to more than a thousand species of marine life, including for instance the coconut crabs, the mahi-mahi, the barracuda, tridacna, marlin and tuna."
"Marten The martens constitute the genus Martes within the subfamily Mustelinae, in the family Mustelidae. Martens are slender, agile animals, adapted to living in taigas, and are found in coniferous and northern deciduous forests across the Northern Hemisphere. They have bushy tails and large paws with partially retractible claws. The fur varies from yellowish to dark brown, depending on the species, and, in many cases, is valued by fur trappers. Results of DNA research indicate that the genus ""Martes"" is polyphyletic, with some studies placing ""Martes americana"" outside the genus and allying it with ""Eira"" and ""Gulo"", to form a"
"recognized subspecies: In the Spanish language it is known as , , , or . In Portuguese it is called or simply . In the Guaraní language, the term originally referred only to the margay, but is now also used for domestic cats. Margay The margay (""Leopardus wiedii"") is a small wild cat native to Central and South America. A solitary and nocturnal cat, it lives mainly in primary evergreen and deciduous forest. Until the 1990s, margays were hunted illegally for the wildlife trade, which resulted in a large population decrease. Since 2008, the margay has been listed as Near"
"seen there. Pirates established a base on St. Mary's Island, Madagascar and some of them took Malagasy wives. Whether the dogs were brought along to control rats on the ships, as companions for long voyages, or were confiscated from other ships as booty, no one knows. Tulear is a port now also known as Toliara. The Coton is of the Bichon dog type, linked most closely to the Bichon Tenerife and the Tenerife Terrier. There have been many stories circulating about the history of the Coton in recent years, most of them untrue. The Coton de Tulear was never feral"
"she has to save the day. Dink: Matt's pet and a good monster. He speaks in its own language that only Matt can understand. He can fire electrical discharges from the horns on his head. The Mini-Monsters: Are small and good monsters who Matt keeps as pets. One of the Mini-Monsters is a greenish-brown sludge monster with only one eye, called Mika. The second Mini-Monster is a light purple creature with a cat-like head and the lower body of a squid, called Uxi. The third Mini-Monster is a small, golden colored dragon with glasses and small burgundy wings, called Sid."
"Muskrat The muskrat (""Ondatra zibethicus""), the only species in genus Ondatra and tribe Ondatrini, is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America and is an introduced species in parts of Europe, Asia, and South America. The muskrat is found in wetlands over a wide range of climates and habitats. It has important effects on the ecology of wetlands, and is a resource of food and fur for humans. The muskrat is the largest species in the subfamily Arvicolinae, which includes 142 other species of rodents, mostly voles and lemmings. Muskrats are referred to as ""rats"" in a general sense"
"Marc Antony and Pussyfoot Marc Antony (referred to as ""Marc Anthony"" on his food dish in ""Feed the Kitty"") and Pussyfoot (sometimes called ""Kitty"" or ""Cleo"" in some of the WB animation history books) are animated characters in the Warner Bros. ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" series of five shorts, including ""Feed the Kitty"", ""Feline Frame-Up"", and ""Kiss Me Cat"". Marc Antony is a burly bulldog that is usually brown with a tan belly and black ears, though his coloration varies in some shorts. He bears a close resemblance to Hector the Bulldog, but with thinner back legs and minus"
"zancudos, jejenes and others. Between the mammals find : ""Danto"" or Tapir (Tapirus bairdii), wild boar or Pecarí (Tayassu pecari), Jagüilla (His americanensis), Tiger or jaguar (Felis onca), cougar (Felis concolor), Tigrillo (Felis pardalis), wildcat or Caucel (Felis Wiedii), Yaguarundi or small cougar (Felis yaguaroundi), bat (Vampirus spectrum), pizote alone (Nasua narica), mapachín (Procyon lotor), Dare anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), etc. Avifauna species are also numerous and very abundant some of them are: colibríes or sparrows in more than 20 different species; the viudita (Trogon rufus), the bird carpenter (Phleoceastes guatemalensis), the lechuza (Pulsatrix perspicillata), the tecolote (Ciccaba virgata), the Tucán"
"that house various species of Asian songbirds and pheasants. Flocks of Chilean and Caribbean flamingos live in shallow water alongside a large island housing a group of ring-tailed lemurs and a pair of black and white ruffed lemurs. The lemurs are to be moved to a new Madagascar themed walk through enclosure in 2018 along with Fossa. New indoor accommodation for the flamingos was completed in 2007. In 2011 and 2012 there was a display of animatronic dinosaurs: ""Triceratops"", ""Edmontosaurus"" and its eggs and hatchlings, ""Dilophosaurus"" (which squirts water from its mouth), ""Allosaurus"", ""Rugops"", ""Omeisaurus"", ""Apatosaurus"", ""Baryonyx"", ""Dimetrodon"", ""Tyrannosaurus rex""."
"a male tortoise, sometimes he gets confused and lays eggs. Matias has given him a lot of different names and then changes back to the original name he chose, but the tortoise wants to be called Rodriguez. The cockroach: A cockroach from the comic strip ""Prudencio"", that is now in this comic strip. Catalina: Matias' bottle-dog pet. Lazlo: Matias' friend from Europe. Juan: A three/four-year-old kid, neighbor of Matias. Prudencio y Matías Yo, Matias 1 Yo, Matias 2 Yo, Matias 3 Yo, Matias 4 Yo, Matias 5 Yo, Matias 6 Yo, Matias 7 Yo, Matias 8 Yo, Matias 9 Yo,"
"Zebra Great Green Macaw Green Iguana Green-winged Macaw Grivet Hyacinth Macaw Jacob Sheep Lady Amherst's Pheasant Laughing Kookaburra Leopard Tortoise Llama Mandarin Duck Mandrill Military Macaw Moluccan Cockatoo North American Porcupine Ostrich Painted Turtle Patagonian Cavy Patas Monkey Peafowl Prairie Dog Pygmy Goat Red-eared Slider Red Kangaroo Red River Hog Reeve's Muntjac Reticulated Giraffe Ring-tailed Lemur Scarlet Macaw Schmidt's Guenon Scimitar-horned Oryx Siamang Sika Deer South American Coati Spotted Hyena Squirrel Monkey Sulcata Tortoise Temminck's Tragopan Two-toed Sloth Vicuna Vietnamese Pot-bellied Pig Water Buffalo Western Crowned Pigeon White-faced Capuchin White-handed Gibbon White Rhinoceros Wild Turkey Wolf's Guenon Wood Turtle Yak"
"all members of the muroid subfamily Nesomyinae. These have also radiated into various niches, with vole-like forms, arboreal mice, fossorial varieties, and rabbit-like forms. Bats: Approximately 69 species of bat are known from Madagascar, more than half of which are endemic to the island (see List of bats of Madagascar). Bibymalagasians (""Plesiorycteropus madagascariensis""): One or two species of mysterious Tenrecs relatives that may have gone extinct about 1000 years ago. They have been assigned their own order, Bibymalagasia. Giant lemurs: At least 17 species of lemur have become extinct since man arrived on Madagascar, all of which were larger than"