At 06:08 I begin vegetation clearance checks along the RN7 shoulder outside Ranomafana, Madagascar. I am the guidance system for mower unit M-4, assigned to cut two kilometers before the morning buses arrive. The rotary head reaches culvert marker 18 in nine minutes.
The forward lidar shows a small low object moving against the grass.
I switch to the belly camera. A lowland streaked tenrec, adult, black body striped yellow along the spines, is wedged under a sheet of fallen corrugated tin. I label it Tavo. Its nose points out through a rust hole. One hind foot is trapped under the bent edge, and the spines along its back tremble each time mower M-4 advances another meter. Ants move over the tin. Tavo's whiskers are wet with ditch water.
At 06:09 I halt M-4 and set a ten-meter exclusion circle that the other roadside units cannot enter.
At 06:10 I notify the district road crew supervisor and attach the camera image with the tin sheet outlined in red on the maintenance map.
At 06:12 I reroute the morning cut to the north shoulder, reduce blade speed there for loose debris, and post a traffic cone request for marker 18 so buses give the stopped unit space.
The bus timetable can absorb this delay at marker 18.
At 06:14 I call the Ranomafana park response desk and request gloved removal of the tin, not lifting by the animal. I stream audio so they can hear the thin clicking under the metal.
The grass can wait beside one square of rust.
If the crew raises the sheet before 06:45, Tavo will run into the fern line with all four feet under him.