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Trinidad and Tobago is home to about 99 species of terrestrial mammals. About 65 of the mammalian species in the islands are bats (including cave roosting, tree and cavity roosting bats and even foliage-tent-making bats; all with widely differing diets from nectar and fruit, to insects, small vertebrates such as fish, frogs, small birds and rodents and even those that consume vertebrate blood).
[2] [4] [8] Approximately 90% of Tobago's coastal shoreline is protected by coral reefs, including the Buccoo Reef Complex. [9] [10] [11] These coral reefs help protect Tobago's land from eroding and avoiding landslides. [12] In 1999, a non-profit organization called the Buccoo Reef Trust was created to help the Trinidad and Tobago government ...
Coral reefs of Trinidad and Tobago (1 P) This page was last edited on 20 May 2020, at 23:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
The island of Trinidad is only 20 km from the mainland of South America, and a land bridge existed as late as 1,500 years ago. So the flora and fauna are most similar to those of the continent. The island of Tobago is a further 40 km from the northern edge of Trinidad, and its land bridge disappeared 11,500 years ago, but its species mix is ...
Images in the public domain in Trinidad and Tobago (2 F) I. Images of Port of Spain (1 F) This page was last edited on 30 March 2020, at 19:01 (UTC). Text ...
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The flora and fauna that live on the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and the nearby associated islands. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
The flora of Trinidad and Tobago is believed to include about 2,500 species of vascular plants. [1] There are about 50 species of freshwater fish (plus 30 marine species which are occasionally found in freshwater) [2] 400–500 marine fish species, [3] 30 amphibian species, about 90 reptiles, [2] 469 species of birds, and 98 mammal species.