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 | | The community of mammals in the mature lowland rain forest of northern Samar, for example, barely differs from that found in the same habitat on Basilan Island, 700 kilometers away. |
 | | The fauna on Bohol is almost identical to that on Basilan, Mindanao, Leyte, and Samar, but not to that of nearby Negros; Masbate's fauna is far more similar to Panay's than to Luzon's, and the fauna of Palawan is more similar to Borneo's than it is to that of any other island in the Philippines. |
 | | Land mammal faunas in northern Samar and Basilan are so similar because the animals were able to walk on dry land from one of these sites to the other. |
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