On the shores of the tropical island,an extraordinary story began.The waves brought ashore an odd band of survivors,a few ancient creatures that had been accidentally swept across hundreds of miles of ocean from a distant land.They found themselves here,in a place unlike any other.Totally cut off from the rest of the world,these castaways made this island their own,gradually evolving into a collection of wildlife that's strange,rare,and utterly unique.So rare,that more than 80% of the species are found nowhere else on Earth.The island was Madagascar.This is the story of what happens when a set of animals and plants are cast away on an island for millions of years.This is how this curious wonderland came into being.