Native Names For Extinct Megafauna
- Birds
- Vorompatra: Aepyornis
- Lemurs
- See Subfossil lemur.
- Tratratratra, tretretretre: probably Palaeopropithecus (a type of sloth lemur) or Hadropithecus
- Tokandia: probably Megaladapis (koala lemur)
- Kidoky: Hadropithecus or Archaeolemur. (monkey lemurs, baboon lemurs) There are unproved stories of a species of kidoky surviving: see this link.
- Others
- Kilopilopitsofy, tsomgomby, railalomena: Malagasy Hippopotamus
- Antamba: Cryptoprocta spelea or similar
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