On the shores of this 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