Madagascar was intially colonized by Maylas about 1,000 years ago. What if the the winds had blown them to India instead. What would Madagascar be like by the time the Europeans came?
Ah, so there really wouldn't be any real way to deal the extinction of the native land birds then. nuts.If they actually arrived in India that would cause some butterflies, but if they simply died, the first people in Madagascar would be Arabs or East Africans, not Europeans.
Ah, so there really wouldn't be any real way to deal the extinction of the native land birds then. nuts.
That we could at least get some in zoos and maybe establish a breeding population? A long shot, I know.What makes you think that European colonization as such would help in this respect? Not saying it could not, but the track record is not exactly encouraging.
That we could at least get some in zoos and maybe establish a breeding population? A long shot, I know.
I wonder if they would have thought some of the larger lemurs were bears
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It's possible, yes.
Madagascar isn't really the place the Europeans are likely to settle in droves. OTOH, I have to concur that without the Indonesian settlement, somebody else is likely to fill the place way before the Europeans show around. The place is just not remote enough (pretty much smack dab in the middle of some noticeable medieval trade networks, for instance) to prevent that unless some very particular circumstance happens.