The Environment Ministry said Sept. 3 it has eliminated all invasive mongooses from Amami-Oshima island here, describing the ...

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The iconic yet endangered Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) has been shown to play a key role in seed dispersal for the non-photosynthetic plant Balanophora yuwanensis. This discovery, made by ...

A research team has analyzed bone tissues of the Japanese endemic Amami rabbit, a nationally designated Special Natural Monument. The study revealed for the first time that this species grows at an ...

The second day of our trip to Amami Oshima. In the evening, we joined a night tour we had been looking forward to.We signed ...

There is a particular kind of chaos that comes from a good idea going really wrong. In 1979, Japan imported 30 small Indian mongooses to Amami Ōshima, a lush subtropical island in Kagoshima Prefecture ...

The iconic yet endangered Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) has been shown to play a key role in seed dispersal for the non-photosynthetic plant Balanophora yuwanensis. This discovery, made by ...

Cross-sections of the tibia (shin bone) of the Amami rabbit (left) and the Japanese hare (right), showing multiple growth arrest lines (red) in the Amami rabbit. The presence of many such lines—even ...