
Video results for Dominican Republic Tarantulas - Big Spider Tarantula on my hand. That video has been seen more than 14.6 million times making it the #1 Most Viewed All Time Pets & Animals video in Canada and the #8 Most Viewed Video All Time Canada. The tarantula was filmed in the Dominican Republic, I hope we have the chance to encounter more tarantulas in the wild during our next Dominican Republic visit. But the Island of Hispaniola and specifically the Dominican Republic has many more creatures and most are facing a difficult future due to mans encroachment. 22 species of bats have been known from Hispaniola. American Crocodile Haitises Striped Gecko Rhinoceros Iguana Bahoruco Twig Anole Pale-bellied Curlytail Hispaniolan Boa various land snails (some quite colorful) Butterflies & Moths - Dragonflies Of the approximately 200 species of diurnal Lepidoptera on Hispaniola, some 75 species are endemic, largely among those groups that are weak fliers. For example, there are about 30 species of satyrid butterflies in the genus Calisto that are endemic to Hispaniola. They all feed on grasses and fly weakly, low over the ground, and have thus produced locally distributed species on the island. Conversely, the hawkmoths in the family Sphingidae are strong fliers, and so, of the 47 species that occur on Hispaniola, only 7 are endemic. Cacata/ Tarantula and more....Dominican Republic does have it's share of spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, centipedes and other nasty, ugly yet <b>...</b>
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