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The [[ | The [[special purpose vehicle]], or [[espievie]]<ref>Known in accounting circles, for some reason, as an [[espiecie]] — rest assured it is the same beast.</ref> is a unique species of [[joint stock company]], first discovered in the wild in the lush forests of [[George Town]], [[Grand Cayman]] by the Scottish naturalist [[A. J. N. Calder]] in 1926. For many years it was believed that the local genus, ''consortium restrictum culpam caymanium'' — the “Common” or “Cayman Exempted” Espievie — was unique, but naturalists found variant species in other islands<ref>[[L. B. G. T. Appleby]] discovering the [[Giant Bermudan Espievie]] in Bermuda in 1929, and Herbert Fonesca discovering the Panamanian Film Partnership in 1953.</ref>. Even then widely understood to be a species indigenous to the Caribbean, but [[Ichabod Mourant]] discovered a very similar animal in the woodlands of [[Jersey]] which subsequent examination revealed to be genetically identical to the Cayman Espievie. | ||
The [[espievie]] was first successfully bred in captivity by [[Calder]] and the [[Maple brothers]] in the George town zoological menagerie, a facility that once stood on the site occupied today by [[Ugland House]]. | |||
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*[[Cayman Islands]] | *[[Cayman Islands]] |