Some 90% of the island's plants and about 70% of its animals are endemic, meaning that they are found only in Madagascar.

岛上90%的植物和70%的动物都是这里独有的，也就是说只能在马达加斯加找到。

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The species - like many other lemurs, like many other animals in Madagascar, like so much of life on Earth - is endangered and dwindling fast.

这个物种——象许多其它的狐猴一样，象马达加斯加许多其它动物一样，或者象地球上的许多生物一样——处于频临灭绝和迅速地减少的状态。

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All that time in geographic isolation made Madagascar a Darwinian playground, its animals and plants evolving into forms utterly original.

所有这些时间在地理上的孤立使得马达加斯加成了达尔文的最佳活动场所，它的动物和植物进化形成的状态完全是原始的。

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Dreamworks was always the likely top contender, with viable franchises and brands via the Madagascar animals, the Shrek universe, and the expanding mythologies of How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda.

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If the animals had reached Madagascar via a "land bridge" - meaning the landmass was connected to the African continent - Simpson argued that large mammals would have also made the journey.

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The discovery fills a gap in the fossil record and raises intriguing questions about the evolution of animals on both Madagascar and India, which separated at about the time this newly identified creature walked the Earth.

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