Pilosans of the Caribbean Rico, the easternmost of the Greater Antilles; another species is known from much older, Oligocene, sediments. Grenada is the southernmost island of the main Lesser Antillean island arc. Trinidad is a large island off northeastern Venezuela. It hosts two species of anteaters that are also found on mainland South America. Curaçao is a Dutch island off northwestern Venezuela. Escudo de Veraguas is an island off northern Panama. Despite its small size, it supports two mammal species found nowhere else: the bat "Artibeus incomitatus" and the only extant Caribbean sloth. Pilosans of the Caribbean The mammalian order Pilosa, which includes the
German interest in the Caribbean considered building a coaling station in the Caribbean, and proposed to purchase the island of Curaçao from the Netherlands. However Chancellor Bismarck was strongly opposed; he wanted to avoid difficulties with the U.S. and nothing happened. Bismarck was ousted from power in 1890 and German naval strategists again turned their attention to the Caribbean but failed to establish a naval base at Margarita Island (Venezuela). In the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903 the United Kingdom and Germany sent warships to blockade Venezuela after it defaulted on its foreign loan repayments. Germany intended to land troops and occupy Venezuelan ports, but U.S.