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The subsistence-shift hypothesis argues that humans in this biogeographic region switched from foraging to agriculture, causing megafaunal decline. George Simpson used this region to illustrate the importance of stochastic dispersal in his sweepstakes model. Anne Yoder showed that all four terrestrial mammal orders found in this region arrived there via a single Cenozoic (10[1])colonization event. (-5[1])A Late-Cretaceous sandstone formation in this region contains the fossils of the first confirmed cannibalistic dinosaur, (-5[1])Majungasaurus, (10[3])and fossils (10[1])of the largest known frog, (10[1])Beelzebufo (10[1])ampinga. The idea that Gondwanan vicariance (10[1]-5[1])drove ratite evolution was refuted by the discovery that New Zealand’s kiwi is the sister taxon of this region’s (-5[1])extinct elephant bird. (10[1])Most of the world’s chameleons (10[2])are endemic to (10[1])this island. (10[7])For 10 points, name this biodiverse island home to the (10[1])indri, aye-aye, and ring-tailed (10[1])lemur. (10[3])■END■

ANSWER: Madagascar [or Madagasikara] (The mammalian orders are primates, rodents, carnivorans, and afrosoricids.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%17%104.25

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Rahim DinaImperial AFlorida B5210
Joel MilesMinnesota ACornell B54-5
John BroussardHouston AMinnesota B70-5
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia Tech BPenn A7110
Julian GatchSouth Carolina AIllinois A7110
Alex SchmidtPenn State AIowa State A7110
Jason HongBrown AMaryland A7310
Robert CondronChicago CUC Berkeley A7810
Brad MacLaineTexas ANorthwestern A7910
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt APurdue A85-5
Ashish SubramanianDuke ACornell A8510
Charles HangWUSTL AChicago A104-5
Graham CopeFlorida AGeorgia Tech A10710
Aiden DartleyRutgers AYale B11210
Cormac BeirneMcGill AClaremont A11210
Rodrigo RoseMIT AIndiana A11510
Ian ChowToronto AHarvard A11710
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins AUC Berkeley B11710
Joseph ChambersVirginia AWUSTL B11710
Eric WolfsbergStanford AYale A11710
William GrogerColumbia BMichigan A11710
Noah SheidlowerColumbia ANorth Carolina A11710
Roxanne TangOhio State AChicago B11710
Justin ChenNYU ARutgers B12710
Ben DahlPurdue AVanderbilt A13110
Matt JacksonChicago AWUSTL A13310
Sarod NoriCornell BMinnesota A13310
Benjamin WeinerMinnesota BHouston A13310