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  2. List of mammals of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Jamaica. Of the mammal species in Jamaica, one is endangered, four are vulnerable, and two are considered to be extinct. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:

  3. Jamaican coney - Wikipedia

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    Jamaican hutias are almost exclusively nocturnal mammals. As night foragers, they feed on a large variety of food sources, including fruits, exposed roots, bark, and the foliage from many different plant species. [2] The IUCN has classified it as an endangered species.

  4. List of Jamaican dishes and foods - Wikipedia

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    A plate of jerk chicken, with rice, plantains, carrots and green beans. This is a list of Jamaican dishes and foods.Jamaican cuisine includes a mixture of cooking techniques, flavors, spices and influences from the indigenous people on the island of Jamaica, and the Africans and Indians who have inhabited the island.

  5. List of rodents of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The rodent fauna of Jamaica is relatively poor at the species level, including only five indigenous species, but diverse at higher taxonomic levels, including the only oryzomyine of the Greater Antilles and several distantly related hystricognaths. †Clidomys osborni, an extinct giant hutia from Jamaica. Numerous morphological variants have ...

  6. Jamaican fruit bat - Wikipedia

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    A Jamaican fruit-eating bat plucks its food and carries it away with its mouth before eating it in its roosts. As such it can disperse seeds fairly far. [ 13 ] Fruit bats have been recorded carrying fruits weighing 3–14 g (0.11–0.49 oz) or even as much as 50 g (1.8 oz).

  7. Jamaican cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Jamaican cuisine includes Rastafari influences. Rastafari have a holistic vegan approach to preparing food, cooking, and eating, and have introduced a host of unique vegetarian dishes to Jamaican cuisine. Rastafari do not eat any living creature, saying that nothing with a face is suitable for human consumption.

  8. Mammals of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Category:Mammals of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Mammals of Jamaica" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *