Cuba's Animal Underworld | Wild Caribbean | BBC Earth

Away from the burning glare of the Caribbean sun live some unusual animals. Cuba is home to the Hutia, a small dog sized rodent as well as plenty of marauding crabs!
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[@an.axolotl5812]

What capybaras would look like if they lived in nyc subway stations

[@jellybean7283]

LOL FR

[@taniaburton7559]

Or, a cross between a mole and a nutria😆

[@theinformedtoast3377]

Never knew a Hutia existed till today, cuban animals are interesting

[@عبدالكريمالعتيبي-غ9ي]

New animal excised so what ?!

[@thenandnow111]

You want to see the women

[@thenandnow111]

@Bernar Garcia Beautiful creatures

[@thenandnow111]

@Bernar Garcia I must have been confused between the women and the cars.

[@thenandnow111]

@Bernar Garcia I must have lost some years. I thought they loved their classic American cars in Cuba.

[@SuperTrey807]

Imagine waking up one morning and seeing all those crabs outside your window 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@kirani111]

I’d just throw the key at them. It’s their house now lol.

[@rayperez5918]

You’d complain over breakfast coming to your house?

[@SuperTrey807]

@@rayperez5918 not when it's trying to crawl in my window

[@tatsusama3192]

This kinda looks like a lesser capybara

[@khing7237]

I have seen rats in New York just as big I swear.

[@deebenson135]

Some are bigger than a small dog. Sewer rat's are HUGE

[@Bebedollie]

Woah thats big for a rat. How they get that big tho?

[@herpallday1284]

@@Bebedollie chihuahua sized

[@Bebedollie]

@@herpallday1284 thats pretty big still. I got rats where i live in new zealand cos i live in the country by a river and streams . The rats from the river are quite big. But my dog kills them

[@herpallday1284]

@@Bebedollie New York rats drink 40’s and have du rags I don’t think they’re scared of dogs 🤣

[@cintronproductions9430]

Hutias also used to live in Puerto Rico many, many years ago, they were a food source of the Taíno natives. The Puerto Rican hutias are extinct, but thankfully they still exist in other Caribbean islands.

[@lifeonearth1911]

Hi

[@cintronproductions9430]

@@lifeonearth1911 Hey.

[@bri1085]

proof communism is good for animals

[@Gocubs2345]

​@@bri1085do they bite?

[@adamacosta7279]

Bro I thought y’all still had jutias there

[@josefonsecavega108]

Fun fact: in Puerto Rico the 'Jutías' (hutias) were pretty much hunted to extinction by the native tainos. Spaniard accounts tell how they were hunted and how rare they were (they were the largest land animal by far then in the island).

[@casof97]

Uh no the ones that hunted them to extinction was the Europeans the tainos didn't hunt them daily because they were both farmers and hunters they knew how to control populations of their foods

[@Alaskan-Armadillo]

They were still eating in Cuba until the 1950s apparently they taste like rabbit.

[@AnimalBattle1]

Cuban animals are wonderful creatures. I wish I could have them dwelling in my house.

[@gloxinmypurse]

Its so cool, like a cross between a capibara and a opossum :)

[@genetlair5999]

And a raccoon! The legs and torso kinda give off the shape...

[@leefishing]

So cute🤩🤩

[@youwatchers]

Thanks for posting this, as a Cuban American it’s fascinating to see and lovely

[@litneyloxan]

Id love to learn more about Cuba and visit, wish relations were better between our countries :(

[@Ivan-pg9uu]

Cuban rodents, okay, but air breathing land crabs that travel 10 kilometers to lay their eggs in the sea 🤯

[@NZ_BraveHeart_0120]

Have you never heard of the Christmas Island red crab? They also live on land, breathe air, and travel long distances to the sea just to lay their eggs.

[@itsallaboutjunior6676]

Animals are more fun to watch than people. Period

[@lifeonearth1911]

Hi

[@OrbitalBliss]

R.O.U.S.

[@Bebedollie]

I like the music that started playing when the crabs came on😉😀

[@dynamosaurusimperious6341]

Seem like Cuba has alot animals

[@butterchuggins5409]

Air breathing land crabs are much better than land breathing air crabs.

[@clash44]

Anyone know what that guitar piece is called and who composed and/or performed it?

[@ausraptor9602]

Didn’t even know these existed till I played far cry 6.

[@jalapenoandbanana]

This is the first documentary about cuba i saw!

[@Meltorizor]

sad

[@MrRain-tt8rs]

Far cry 6 is why I’m here

[@universaltv8136]

This video interesting

[@kennymichaelalanya7134]

Never knew what a Hutia was . Amazing . 👍🏼

[@rpittillo]

Wow, those red crabs are awesome. ❤️🥺

[@touremuhammad5983]

Fun fact: the Pacific ocean’s version of these Cuban red crabs 🦀 are the red crabs that live on Christmas Island. 🇨🇽

[@JakobHofer]

Nice

[@HOV4N]

Hutia = Quarantine life

[@AZTECBLOODWOLF]

They kinda look like capibara mixed kangaroo

[@BuildItBricks]

They kinda look like a- foosa.... If that’s spelled right.

[@cintronproductions9430]

It's pronounced foosa, but it's spelled fossa.

[@anthonyrooksmith3189]

Great narration too

[@Yourname942]

why dump them in the ocean only to go back on land? What makes them not be able to do that on land? (would the eggs dry out/be picked off?)

[@theundisputed96310]

Looks like capybara

[@tosinadebayo1247]

And then some people will claim that there is no God (Designer of the earth and the creatures that live in it): Where did these crabs learn how to get to the seashore, lay their eggs, and the eggs after hatching find their way back on land and start that 10-kilometer journey back to where their parents are? It definitely wasn't from a BIG BANG. You are an awesome mighty God, Lord Jesus.

[@quy47vlog42]

Very good

[@natureafricaexplorers6980]

Wow! Wildlife in cuba is very different from what we see in Africa . Av learnt something new today. Thank you for sharing!

[@gregoryhamilton1204]

👍👍👍

[@geevargheesep.a1016]

Suuuuuuuuuuupeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr

[@feeltheillinois]

i would not want to be swimming in millions of larvae lol

[@taslimchoudhary1253]

Beautiful Caverage. 💮💮🇮🇳

[@naturalreach4316]

So cute they look

[@xoxofox4028]

سبحان الله العظيم في خلقه

[@casof97]

All over the Caribbean the natives ate them but the damn Europeans killed them off smh only in cuba they couldn't get all since cuba is huge

[@ESSYFUTB]

FIRST

[@Hello-xb1xe]

Nice

[@btdbtd8709]

Giant Rat

[@amrutabisain8286]

Hi

[@beautyforashes2022]

3:10 Can you imagine them accidentally getting into your house and then climbing into bed with you in the middle of the night?... That's a big nope for me.

[@beautyforashes2022]

@Bernar Garcia I used to live in a town called Dania and we had huge land crabs that would be running around all over the place. Sometimes when you would go to open your door and if you weren't paying attention they would run right into the house. But they weren't anywhere near the epic proportions of the crabs in Cuba.

[@an.axolotl5812]

@@beautyforashes2022 are they edible?

[@beautyforashes2022]

@@an.axolotl5812 yes, you can eat them. But I've never known anyone who has.

[@Richie016]

its fascinating to learn how Cuban rodent and crab families habilitate surviving on plant and herb patches near the caribbean sea.

[@AvalancheOfFire]

I remember hunting them like crazy in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

[@thepurplewatchers797]

This is very interesting... 👍

[@boplaksbro1029]

Early

[@bluedevilg3542]

Wouldn’t mind them crabs coming up on my window I’d be having crab every night for dinner

[@moduleheadindependentcreat8158]

Lol, happens once a year tho

[@Itzchandan024]

Everyday brand new footages on all new Animal Kingdom!! Thanks BBC Earth 😍👌🙌

[@NYCCgirl1]

Did he say "size of a small dog??"

[@emilatik8581]

@Bernar Garcia Its largest/and longest/and tallest males can indeed be around as large, long and tall as a Chihuahua ,Shi Thu and other small dog breeds, just saying✌🤘👌👍

[@chungusmaximus526]

Insular dwarfism. All around the Caribbean, animals tend to be smaller because they evolved in a limited-range environment.

[@adamacosta7279]

For a rodent that’s pretty big

[@cutiiepie6814]

i love animals :3 SO CUTEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@olaluvall2560]

Tikoooooss.... ih geliiikk... 🥵🥵🥵😨😨😨

[@ColonelBanana]

Hutia- pre-evolved form of Capybara.

[@victoriae.2371]

The narrator has an excellent voice!

[@ASPPRODISCOVER]

incredible red crab👍👍👍👍

[@farykhan1262]

it's true...i had been at Cuba for 7 years, one night i had to travel many kilometers at a ocean-side road which was full of them and taxi had no other option left but to have its tyres over them to pass from there....just imagin!!

[@abdulkadimosenye5050]

Same rats are in the ghettos of Lagos Nigeria

[@quy47vlog42]

100 like

[@alieyvzv9911]

SO THİSİS VERY GOOOOOD VİDİOO

[@jaksus6362]

Dnld Reacher from playstore it's revelutionary 😲😉

[@Itzchandan024]

So cute that Cavy-like rodent Hutia!!

[@lifeonearth1911]

Hi

[@the_man_with_the_silver_eyes]

Looks like a mouse, is closer to a guinea pig. Some rodents are quite deceiving in appearance.

[@johnmoreandalina753]

So amazing story

[@MR071061308]

👍🏽

[@Hallands.]

Small capybara...

[@sanyairving9919]

Hey

[@Outrageousfirevulture]

Damn I didn’t even knew this thing existed till now

[@tharushihimasha403]

Thank you.

[@theanimalshow6538]

The Hutia on the thumbnail: *Hey*

[@VILJL]

They are known in Spanish as jutía. In Cuba, where food is scarce, both la jutia and the cangrejos (crabs) are a good source of food.

[@lifeonearth1911]

Wow I wantto

[@lenny108]

seems these are capybaras who left the Amazon river because of the anacondas eating them like humans eat hotdogs.

[@learntomusic3158]

BBC✨

[@luckycharm1]

This is the real Master Splinter!

[@MS-nk4xb]

- Å fan!

[@daoyang5988]

Phil the Solenodon he's is voice actor played by Jim Carrey. From Sonic 2.

[@MrBeatboxmasta]

3:12 Honey, get the boiling pot ready!

[@jonnyhatter35]

Cuban here. We eat jutias. We also sacrifice them to the Orishas, cuz. . . Cuba. . .

[@daoyang5988]

Solenodon was mammal incredibly awesomely!

[@comfortablynumb9342]

Central America has crabs like that on both coasts. Billions of them.

[@Ben-bg2lp]

Batman's cave sucks compared to this mansion!

[@CanadianBongRipper]

the way they introduce the crabs is so funny to me

[@thenandnow111]

0:55 Can anybody else see the Rhino standing near the shoreline?

[@Aaron-hh6uh]

If that’s how crabs hatch then humans must get crabs from swimming in the ocean right???? Or were we born from the Ocean?? 🤔

[@michelle_ajema]

3.10 made my skin crawl. 😬😲

[@stejkoman]

Looks like he is about to start a new chemical factory

[@anthonyrooksmith3189]

Those giant rodents are lush

[@celtc7875]

2:48 notice any albinos?

[@litneyloxan]

i would be the crabs that took a wrong turn

[@wendyrowland7787]

They have similar body shape to capybara.

[@perrysingh2873]

I ate one of these in cubas lmao. The locals there catch and cook them

[@VAMR-vc7xg]

Hutias are endearing.

[@lycanwatigot124]

Phil Lamar is that you💯

[@shivabachoo2982]

Agouti

[@edvinhemphala1065]

Always nice seeing a animal species you've never seen before.

[@DecimusCastusSPQR]

11 billion crabs

[@andrej1659]

Jesus rose from dead