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The distribution of
rhe animsis on the istand is
governad muinly by the plant cornmaity in waich thay live,
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trees are found on the island,
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and the trimwupheta, one of the vines which grows flint on the
ground, covers the area to such a desrses that you cannot walk
through the area
at all,
The third area contains 2 beach micnolia.
iIn between
those brash arcas are Iccated indavidual elyers of soase or bunch
gooass.
Several man-mace structures have altoved the native con-
ditions of the island--adrolane landings strips, concrete floors
for temporary buildinzs, trenches, roads, ete.
All of the co-
ceanut trees wore bulldozed off.
The rats, for tho most part, live in the grassland
areas and, to a lesser desrce, in tho brush area,
These rats
belong to a grcup vale supposedly, orisinally, migrated from
the Celebes, in fron the Mavaddan Islands.
to break up into insular ov atoll grouvs.
This spocies tends
The fnet that the egrovun
¢€oes break up is indicated by the fact that thore are at leas