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It would mean that as the planet continued to warm, Bahamians like my mother, like Jacana Theoc, Tyrone Mather and Ann Wilmore, would not be at such risk of having their entire lives lacerated.

Jacana Theoc and her family were left with only the shell of their home.

Standing in her yard, her battered home behind us, Jacana Theoc told me how she and her six children endured three terrifying days inside the storm.

Her favorite specimen in her studio is an African jacana that earned her the incredible distinction of third place at the 2017 World Taxidermy & Fish Carving Championships.

At a larger pond just down the road, a dozen spectacled caiman lounged in the shallows, and a long-toed bird called a wattled �Ჹç���Բ� waded alongside a roseate spoonbill.