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What kind of animals are in Samoa?
Rats, wild cattle, and pigs have been introduced. Among the smaller animals found in Samoa are several species of lizards, two snakes of the boa family, centipedes and millipedes, scorpions, spiders, and a wide variety of insects.
What mammals live in Samoa?
Flying Foxes (fruit bats) tonganus) and a small insect- eating bat (Emballonura semicaudata). These three are the only native mammals in the Samoan islands.
What is the Samoan national animal?
National animal of Samoa is Whales.
Are there sharks in Samoa?
Shark sightings and attacks in Samoa’s waters are not new. There are shark species known as grey reef sharks, white-tip reef sharks, and black tip reef sharks which are normally found in the lagoon areas (aloalo) and some observed close to shore.
Are there dolphins in Samoa?
The productive slope waters of the Samoan Archipelago provide foraging opportunities that allow the populations of (at least) spinner and rough-toothed dolphins to remain resident in the defined waters throughout the year and from year to year (Johnston et al. 2008, Ward, 2011).
Are there any snakes in Samoa?
Samoa has no venomous land snakes although sea kraits (Laticauda) and the Pelagic seasnake (Hydrophis platura) may occasionally be found on the coast. The Fiji snake is considered unique being the only land-living venomous snake east of the Solomon Islands.
What are Samoans most popular traditional food?
Luau or Palusami – Coconut Milk Baked in Taro Leaves.
What food do they eat in Samoa?
Traditional Samoan foods included taro root, yams, bananas, coconuts, breadfruit, fish, turtle, and chicken. Even though pigs are raised, pork is reserved for ceremonial occasions. Samoan meals are always accompanied by a salted coconut cream condiment called pe’epe’e.
What are some popular foods in Samoa?
especially those of butter and coconut.
What is the Samoan diet?
Samoans used to — and still do — grow their own food. Their traditional diet consisted of mostly taro, breadfruit, coconut, bananas and seafood — very healthy stuff. But more recently, on top of those foods, people started buying foods that were coming from the outside.