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Little Swan Island hutia : ウィキペディア英語版 | Little Swan Island hutia
The Little Swan Island hutia (''Geocapromys thoracatus'') is an extinct species of rodent that lived on the Swan Islands, off north-eastern Honduras in the Caribbean. It was a slow-moving, guinea-pig-like rodent and probably emerged from caves and limestone crevices to forage on bark, small twigs and leaves. It may have been a subspecies of the Jamaican hutia (''Geocapromys browni''), whose ancestors were carried to the island from Jamaica, 5000-7000 years ago. It was fairly common in the early 20th century, but disappeared after a severe hurricane (Hurricane Janet) in 1955, followed by the introduction of house cats to the island. ==References== *'A Gap in Nature' by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten (2001), published by William Heinemann
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