Regarding the hurón/jurón: It was an introduced species, and it was under the mistaken idea that they would attack the rats that were damaging the sugar cane. Problem was that there was no such thing as an environmental study carried out before the introduction and people did not know about the interaction between species.
Sooooo, it turned out that rats are nocturnal creatures and hurones are daytime creatures, and the only time that they might cross paths was as one of them came or went to work....
Result: More hurones and more rats.
And this happened in Hawaii, too....
The "sapo Bogaert" is another example of an introduced species. The very large frog--quite like the bullfrog of North America--was brought in to eat mosquitoes, which it does quite well...
The solenodon is terribly threatened and might well be extinct. Its habitat is threatened more each day. I have never even seen a hutía...
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