New Word: Endemic

this is a yucatan woodpecker.it's endemic

I was looking at this website and read a bit about how there are plants and animals that are endemic to the Yucatan. Now I didn't know what it meant. But the author describes it really well.

When a biologist says that an organism is endemic to a certain area, he or she means that in the whole world that thing is found only in that limited area. A surprising number of organisms are endemic to the Yucatan.

The reason that the Yucatan has so many endemic plants and animals is that it is ecologically isolated (kind of like the galapagos) even though it is a penninsula. Here is a list of endemic birds -- we will see several of them.

This is a cool video of a yucatan jay (endemic) feeding a juvenile. I wont' forget this sound for a long time.