Joe Rogan Experience #2577 - Gregory Forth · Aired Nov 5, 2026
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Flores is mammal-poor, with the only indigenous land mammals being bats and rodents.
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Flores is mammal-poor and most of its native land mammals are bats and rodents, so the main point holds. But the list is incomplete, because the Flores shrew, Suncus mertensi, is a native species found only on Flores. This is a small overstatement rather than a big error. This would be wrong if the Flores shrew turned out to be an introduced species rather than a native one.
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Is it true that Flores is mammal-poor, with the only indigenous land mammals being bats and rodents?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Flores is mammal-poor and most of its native land mammals are bats and rodents, so the main point holds. But the list is incomplete, because the Flores shrew, Suncus mertensi, is a native species found only on Flores. Gregory Forth said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2577 - Gregory Forth, aired Nov 5, 2026, at 17:32. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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