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01-25-2008, 06:03 PM
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I think the creatures crossing the roads are more likely to be mongoose,geese or gooses not the elusive solendon or hutia
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Never said it was. It's the jurón/hurón. The solenodon and hutía are rarely seen.
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01-25-2008, 06:21 PM
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Thanks for all the great responses! After reading about the reforestation project I wondered if it were possible to reintroduce some indigenous species of wildlife.
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01-25-2008, 10:52 PM
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sorry to speak i know you dont like new people contributing,,,i will go back to my hut
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01-26-2008, 06:59 AM
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sorry to speak i know you dont like new people contributing,,,i will go back to my hut
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We were all new people once, John. Certainly hasn't caused me to retreat. lol. Hang in there. DR1ers are great people and generous with information I doubt you'll find anywhere else.
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01-26-2008, 07:07 AM
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I don't think you read my post:
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Originally Posted by Chirimoya
I think the main wild mammals here - apart from the humpback whales and manatees - are the solenodon, the huron/jurón (ferret/weasel like creature sometimes seen running across rural roads) and the hutía (a large rodent).
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-in response to which you posted:
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Originally Posted by John Evans
I think the creatures crossing the roads are more likely to be mongoose,geese or gooses not the elusive solendon or hutia
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- which implies that you thought I was saying that the solenodon and jutía were sometimes seen crossing the road, so I replied:
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Originally Posted by Chiri
Never said it was. It's the jurón/hurón. The solenodon and hutía are rarely seen.
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- and this clarification provokes this wounded reply:
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Originally Posted by John Evans
sorry to speak i know you dont like new people contributing,,,i will go back to my hut
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-If I do like or dislike posters it's not on the basis of post count, but on what they contribute to the discussion and the board in general. Oh, and the courtesy to actually take the time to read and absorb the contents of the posts they are replying to.
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01-26-2008, 07:28 AM
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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...
HB
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01-26-2008, 07:52 AM
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The solenodon is not extinct, yet, in the DR...
This particular thingy was most common to be spotted in the Artibonito (Massacre River) region. Due to the ongoing disforestation by Haitians that don't know any better way to cook, the habitat of this creature is under serious problems.
A joint effort funded in part by the EU and Canadian gov is looking to replant trees in the river's bank and immediate area. The DR has made great effort to help the green covers of our barren areas come alive again; planting of new trees and a gamut of local and introduced species is under way since 1997 with millions of trees per year.
Sadly enough, Haitians would eat anything that moves in the wild, even if it's known to be not edible... The Solenodon is not free from becoming part of the casual meal in those homes...
The DR owns some beautiful parks and reserves, where many endemic species make their home in the island. The most numerous are the birds...
Recent development close to those areas only makes them prone to abuse and exploitation by crooks. It's the same case wherever pristine jungle and forest exists in the world are linked by well traveled roads that miscreants can use to exploit them...
I can recall in the early 60's you could spot an endemic owl species that took to the skies in the twilight of the afternoon-night to start the hunting. It was a great sight in Santiago...
The same happened to the criollo pigs, which became statistics of the pork fever in the island...
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01-26-2008, 08:21 AM
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01-26-2008, 08:22 AM
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Last edited by Keith R; 01-26-2008 at 02:07 PM.
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