If you go out from Earth up into space, you see our entire planet is a living organism - be it in the sea with all the fish, on the land with all the reptiles and mammals and insects, but the way man is behaving at the moment needs attention.
The new air base would be built on reclaimed land there, where sea turtles and marine mammals called dugongs now swim around coral reefs in turquoise blue waters.
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.