Alonnisos Marine Park ("Larus cacchinans"), and, nesting among the rocks, the "Apus capus" and "Apus melba", the rock nuthatch ("Sitta neumayeri"), etc. The existing flora also favours the presence of species of the family Sylvidae, e.g. the Sardinian warbler ("Sylvia melanocephala") and the blackcap ("Sylvia atricapilla"). Underwater fauna is also varied, with many benthic and fish species. Various species of dolphins and some whale species may be seen in the region, such as the common dolphin ("Delphinus delphis"), the striped dolphin ("Stenella coeruleoalba"), the bottlenose dolphin ("Tursiops truncatus"), the long-finned pilot whale ("Globicephala melas"), the sperm whale ("Physeter macrocephalus") and the Cuvier's beaked
Buru (legendary creature) a large Komodo dragon-like monitor lizard, and there are fossils of such a creature to be found in the Indian subcontinent. Heuvelmans notes similar reported creatures from Western India under the name of "jhoors" where they seem to merge into the Iranian traditional dragon or ahi (Azi Dahaka), which in Iranian art is basically a local stylistic adaptation of the Chinese dragon. George Eberhart notes rumors of a similar creature in the Tigris marshes of Iraq, called the afa, possibly the same thing as ahi. Heuvelmans also notes in his checklist of unknown animals that similar reports to the buru