20 Pets left behind by the Treasure Fleet

Pets left behind by the Treasure Fleet

(a) Tame ducks
Central and S America

 

(Note: Mendoza – Ducks kept bugs off rice. Some ships carried 4000 in one cage – Ibn Battuta)

Distribution of Tame Curassows and Tree Ducks

Place Curassows Tree Ducks
Guyana Hausisi Wis-sisi
Orinoco Wicisisi
Gran Camaro Hauishi Huisisi
/Mato Grosso Bichichi
Trinidad Paui Uikiki
Venezuela Paujil Uisisia
Pisisi
Panama Pahuil Guichichi
San Salvador Pahuil Pishishi
Chiapas Painil Pichichi
Yucatan Pauju Pichichi
Mexico Paujjil Pichichi
Mexico Not found Pechechene
Falklands Not found Steamer Duck
Parana/Uraguay Rivers Not found Gaguasa
Puerto Rico Not found Yagnasa
Hispaniola Not found Yaguasa
Cuba Not found Naguasa
Campbell Island
(NZ)
Not found Flightless teal
Hawaii Not found Flightless geese.

= Tree ducks & Curassows
= Curassows only
= Tree Ducks only

SOURCE: Glenn R Whitley
Anthropological Journal of Canada Vol 12, 1974
Save for Falklands, Campbell Island and Hawaii (GM).
See also Mendoza (para. 5.6. above) at p. 152

(b) Monkeys as pets

(i) Monkey carvings, Columbia River, Washington State, Ancient Man, a handbook of puzzling artefacts by W N Corliss, 1978, p. 478 (Willard S Bacon).

(ii) Ochanahoen, Virginia – “people take monkeys into interior” (W M Strachey).

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