Cats, lizards, monkeys, my God! Nine islands ruled by animals

Animal laws! "Komodo island. Lovely rabbit island! A group of pigs that can swim! A sick monkey island! "

Well, maybe the last one is not so attractive.

Islands are like evolutionary bubbles. Animals and plants on the island can't easily jump to another home, so they are still isolated and split into different species to fill the niche. It may not be a coincidence that Charles Darwin's views on species evolution were formed on islands (specifically, the Galapagos Islands are diverse). However, on some islands,

Dominant, whether as an evolutionary accident or due to human intervention. Here are nine islands ruled by animals.

Rabbit loves rabbit island in Japan. (chris mcgrath/Getty) Cuteness occupies the supreme position in Oshima. Oshima used to be a place to make chemical weapons, but now it is home to hundreds of lovely and friendly rabbits.

It's a bit mysterious how rabbits rule this small island in Hiroshima Prefecture, inland sea. During World War II, rabbits were used in chemical weapons experiments on the island, but these rabbits may be euthanized after the war. Ellis Kraus, a professor of Japanese political science at the University of California, San Diego, told the dodo that rabbits may have grown from pets released by primary school students or tourists.

Rabbits on the island have no natural enemies, and rabbits breed like rabbits. So according to the estimation of tourist attractions on the island, there are about 700 locusts wandering on the island. Tourists feed them and even leave them bottled water because the water on the island is polluted by the arms factory.

Experimental animal island experimental chimpanzee island. (Vice/Youtube) Animals released by humans dominate another group of islands, which are six island chains off the coast of Liberia. New york Blood Center, an abandoned medical research institution, began to use wild chimpanzees for vaccination research in 1970s. When the institute closed in 2005, the remaining 66 chimpanzees were released to a small piece of land that was soon called "Monkey Island". "Human caregivers paid for food and water for them."

Monkey Island is far from a paradise for chimpanzees (although the island has a nickname, it is an ape, not a monkey). According to the report of the main board, from 2065438 to March 2007, new york Blood Center stopped paying the fees of chimpanzee caregivers. Conservationists and human society compete to raise money to prevent chimpanzees from dying of hunger and thirst. GoFundMe continues to raise funds to provide a nutritious diet for chimpanzees.

Pig beach, pig beach. If you see something strange swimming towards you in the water on a big reef, don't scream "shark!" " "It may be a pig.

The Great Main Reef, also known as "Pig Beach", is an uninhabited Little Beach in the Exuma District of Bahamas. About 20 pigs live there, and they swim to the boats of passing tourists, hoping to get charity. No one knows how these non-local pigs came to the Cayman Islands. They may be descendants of the shipwrecked people a long time ago, or their ancestors were left on the island by sailors as storage places for living food. Today, pigs don't have to worry about turning into bacon. On the contrary, they are a tourist attraction.

Rat Island Rat Island. (Adobe stock) Aleutian Island in Alaska is also called "Rat Island". This rugged island was once colonized by rats on board when it was stranded by a Japanese ship at the end of 17. Rats immediately began to destroy the local ecosystem and wolfed down the eggs on the island.

In 2008, the US Fish and Wildlife Service joined hands with several conservation agencies to end the terror rule of rats and put rodenticide on the island to eliminate invasive rodents. Large-scale poisoning has played a role: by 20 10, there will be no mice on the rat island.

The island was later renamed Hawaii, and the study of 20 16 found that the bird population was rebounding without the pressure of carnivorous rodents.

Cat island. Cat island. (Darius Anton /Unsplash) It's a pity that Mouse Island can't be moved next to Cat Island. In 20 14, the World Wildlife Conservation Society reported that an island on the Niagara River near Buffalo was occupied by wild cats. Locals estimate that there are hundreds of cats living on this 85-acre island of Tonawanda, and their droppings will pollute this area.

But wildcats are indeed a problem that can be solved. By 20 14, local people were catching cats on the island. Kittens were sent for adoption, while adults were cut off or returned to live on the island, and no more cats were created.

Monkey Island Many Caribbean islands have monkeys, but Puerto Rico's Cayo Santiago Island is different. In 1930s, mankind turned this lush tropical paradise into Shangri-La for primates, so as not to go all the way to Africa and Asia to study monkeys.

According to NBC 20 15, monkeys-rhesus monkeys-are very useful to researchers who study genetics, behavior, development and related topics. But they naturally carry herpes B virus, which will not cause much trouble to monkeys, but will cause inflammation of human brain and spinal cord. According to national radio, this means death or severe disability, so researchers try to avoid peeing. On the other hand, however, tourists or fishermen who come to the island for tourism or fishing can easily wipe out the whole macaque population under the disease.

Christmas Crab Christmas Island. (Christmas Island Tourism Association) Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean, which is 5 miles (2,600 kilometers) away from Perth16/Kloc-0. People live there, but the most famous resident of Christmas Island is Gecarcoidea natalis, a red crab on Christmas Island.

Everyone on Christmas Island has 25,000 red crabs. These 50 million crabs are hard to miss: according to the Christmas Island Tourism Association, they are about 4.5 inches (116mm) in diameter and are bright red. Every year around 65438+ 10 or 165438+ 10, adult red crabs leave their inland forest homes and head for the coast, where they breed in groups and send their eggs to the sea.

Komodo, cool island. Living with a 200-pound (90 kg) carnivorous lizard may not be a good time for anyone, but some people succeed. Komodo National Park in Indonesia is famous for its dangerous Komodo monitor lizards, which are famous for attacking and killing people. Nevertheless, according to Time magazine, there are still thousands of villagers living with lizards.

To be on the safe side, locals treat lizards like Montana bears, and may react to grizzly bears: make a hullabaloo about, get bigger and throw stones and sticks when animals are threatened. But the way Komodo dragons really rule Komodo National Park Islands, grizzly bears no longer rule the Rocky Mountains: they can see sleeping under buildings, wandering contentedly on the beach, and sometimes being very close to people.

Snake Island Ilhada Quemadagrande, also known as Snake Island. (mark moffett/mindenpictures/newscom) Why must it be a snake? On Ilha da Queimada Grande, a small island off the coast of Sao Paulo, Brazil, people are generally not allowed to enter, for good reason: the landscape here is mainly tuna pit vipers.

These rare snakes, only found on the island, are a beautiful mottled gold with a pointed nose and fatal bites. Generally speaking, the spearhead snake is the most dangerous snake in the Soviet area.