Assertion: tarsier's population | /r/HasProperty | rafted on tangled mats of vegetation
Facets:
value: from nearby africa
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In 1915, paleontologist William Diller Matthew noted that the mammalian biodiversity on Madagascar (including lemurs) can only be accounted for by random rafting events, where very small populations rafted from nearby Africa on tangled mats of vegetation, which get flushed out to sea from major rivers.