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What animal are the Canary Islands named after?

April 26, 2017Animal canary islands named

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What animal are the Canary Islands named after?

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, a name applied originally only to the island of Gran Canaria. It is thought that the dense population of an endemic breed of large and fierce dogs, like the Presa Canario, was the characteristic that most struck the few ancient Romans who established contact with the islands by the sea.