Last endemic mammals in Hispaniola

Abstract

After searching many remote regions in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, the author discovered that the island's last two endemic mammals, formerly believed to be rare, are in fact common in some areas. But human pressures on the hutia Plagiodonria aedium and the solenodon S. paradoxus are such that, unless the governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic take effective steps both could soon become extinct.