Jamaican Iguana
The Jamaican iguana is the largest indigenous animal on the island. From 1948 to 1990 the large iguana was thought to be extinct. Only around 50 of these lizards still exist in the wild at the moment, according to a study. The greatest reason for the endangerment is the “small Asian mongoose” which was brought to the island to take care of the snake problem. The backfire occurred when locals realized that the mongooses also took a liking to the eggs of the Jamaican iguana.
Jamaican Iguana
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The “unicorn of Asia” made an appearance in the form of a skull from a hunter in 1992. This led researchers to believe that there was an animal that they hadn’t discovered yet in the Vietnamese region. This was the first large mammal found in the last 50 years and the existing number of these animals is unknown.
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