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As far as reptiles go, the Jamaican iguana, that's critically endangered and that's thought to have been significantly impacted by Melissa, the Jamaican flower bat, that's also critically endangered and that may have been significantly impacted by the hurricane. And then of course there's other displaced wildlife. And just one of the cases that I wanted to bring up is Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. That struck Grand Bahama in 2019. And it helped eradicate the Bahama nuthatch and that was a bird that was already impacted by development within the area. But it lived and it was only found in the interior pine forest and the pine forests were wiped out by the wind and then they were killed by the salt spray from the ocean. And after Hurricane Dorian, there was a small population they'd rediscovered, but after Dorian rolled through, they couldn't find any of them. So now it's believed that ultimately Dorian finished them off. They were already critically endangered, they were thought extinct and some of them found a Dorian came along and now they're gone. So that's one of the big problems.