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The official language of the Bahamas is English. Many people speak an English-based creole language called Bahamian dialect (known simply as "dialect") or "Bahamianese". [144] Laurente Gibbs, a Bahamian writer and actor, was the first to coin the latter name in a poem and has since promoted its usage. [145] [146] Both are used as autoglossonyms ...
Malayan tiger (national animal) Panthera tigris [41] Mongolia: Saker falcon (national bird) Falco cherrug [42] [43] Nepal: Cow (national animal) Bos indicus [44] Himalayan monal (national bird) Lophophorus impejanus Nicaragua: Turquoise-browed motmot (national bird) Eumomota superciliosa [45] Pakistan: Markhor (national animal) Capra falconeri [46]
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Bahamas. Of the mammal species in the Bahamas, two are endangered, three are vulnerable, and one is 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:
Their breeding habitat is open country of the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, the Bahamas, and the Florida Keys in the United States. They usually nest on bare ground, sometimes in raised locations including stumps or gravel roofs. They especially favor recently cleared areas in forests, airport fields, cane fields and pastures.
Several types of palms are native to the Florida Keys, including the Florida thatch palm (Thrinax radiata), which grows to its greatest size in Florida on the islands of the Keys. The Keys are also home to unique animal species, including the American crocodile , Key deer (protected by the National Key Deer Refuge ), and the Key Largo woodrat .
Leucothrinax morrisii is native to the Florida mainland and Keys, the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola (in the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Puerto Rico, [3] Navassa Island, [8] Saint Barthélemy, both the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. [7] It is found in dry, deciduous forests and scrub and coastal areas. [7]
The species is native to Cuba and the Bahamas. It has been widely introduced elsewhere, via the importation and exportation of plants where the anole would lay eggs in the soil of the pots, and is now found in Florida and other regions of the United States including southern Georgia , Texas , Louisiana , Tennessee , Mississippi , Alabama ...
Eumaeus atala, also known as the Atala butterfly or coontie hairstreak, is a small colorful butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.It is found in southeastern Florida (including the Florida Keys) in the United States, Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Cayman Islands in the West Indies.