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A unique and diverse albeit phylogenetically restricted mammal fauna [note 1] is known from the Caribbean region. The region—specifically, all islands in the Caribbean Sea (except for small islets close to the continental mainland) and the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Barbados, which are not in the Caribbean Sea but biogeographically belong to the same Caribbean bioregion—has ...
Xenotrichini (the Antilles monkeys) is a tribe of extinct primates, which lived on the Greater Antilles as recently as the 16th century.. These Caribbean islands no longer contain endemic primates, although the most recently discovered species, the Hispaniola monkey, was reported to have lived on Hispaniola until the settlement by the Europeans.
Cayo Santiago, also known as Santiago Island, Isla de los monos (or Island of the monkeys), is located at , 0.59 mi (0.95 km) 0.6 mi (1.0 km) to the east of Punta Santiago, Humacao, Puerto [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is known as the home to approximately 1800 rhesus macaque monkeys, who have been observed and studied by scientists since 1938.
In 1972, hundreds of rhesus macaque monkeys were brought from India to Loggerhead Key by Charles River Laboratories. [9] [10] This was done to provide the monkeys a place to breed, to supply the animals for medical research laboratory experiments. [9] [10] Around 1,322 of the monkeys existed on the island between 1987 and 1990. [10]
They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenopteridae (baleen whales) Genus: Balaenoptera. Common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata
They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenopteridae (baleen whales) Genus: Balaenoptera. Common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata
They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenopteridae (baleen whales) Genus: Eubalaena. North Atlantic right whale, E. glacialis EN; Genus: Balaenoptera
They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenopteridae (baleen whales) Genus: Balaenoptera. Common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata