Many malagasy believe the boundary between life and death is not altogether impermeable that the spirits of their ancestors can somehow pass back and forth .
许多马达加斯加人相信生与死的界限并非完全滴水不透,先人的灵魂能以某种方式来来往往。
In particular they looked at a snippet of dna called the malagasy motif , found almost exclusively in madagascar .
他们特别观察了叫做“马达加斯加序列”的dna片段,而其几乎只能在马达加斯加岛上发现。
The first colony I found was the malagasy silk ant ( melissotarsus insularis ) living inside a euphorb tree .