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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Galápagos Islands' has mentioned 'Endemic' in the following places:
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Punta Suarez has migrant, resident, and endemic wildlife, including brightly colored marine iguanas, Espaxc3xb1ola lava lizards, hood mockingbirds, swallow-tailed gulls, blue-footed boobies, Nazca boobies, red-billed tropicbirds, Galxc3xa1pagos hawks, three species of Darwin's finches, and the waved albatross. | WIKI |
Galapagos hawks and sea lions inhabit this island, and it is home to the Marchena lava lizard, an endemic animal. | WIKI |
Among them is the sharp-beaked ground finch Geospiza difficilis septentrionalis which is sometimes called the "vampire finch" for its blood-sucking habits, and the tool-using woodpecker finch, Camarhynchus pallidus Galxc3xa1pagos sea lions, Zalophus wollebaeki, closely related to the California sea lion, but smaller Two endemic genera of cacti, each with a single species: Jasminocereus thouarsii, the candelabra cactus, and Brachycereus nesioticus, the lava cactus | WIKI |
[52] Also, where the black rat is found, the endemic rat has disappeared. | WIKI |
The fast-growing poultry industry on the inhabited islands has been cause for concern from local conservationists, who fear domestic birds could introduce disease into the endemic wild bird populations. | WIKI |
These processes, together with the extreme isolation of the islands, led to the development of unusual plant and animal life xe2x80x93 such as marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, giant tortoises, huge cacti, endemic trees and the many different subspecies of mockingbirds and finches xe2x80x93 all of which inspired Charles Darwinxe2x80x99s theory of evolution by natural selection following his visit in 1835. | UNESCO |
Endemic flora such as the giant daisy trees Scalesia spp. | UNESCO |
and many other genera have also radiated on the islands, part of a native flora including about 500 vascular plant species of which about 180 are endemic. | UNESCO |
Examples of endemic and threatened species include 12 native terrestrial mammal species (11 endemic, with 10 threatened or extinct) and 36 reptile species (all endemic and most considered threatened or extinct), including the only marine iguana in the world. | UNESCO |