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Originally from India, when the small Asian mongoose was brought to the islands of Maui, Moloka’i, and O’ahu in an attempt to manage the rats in sugarcane fields in the late nineteenth century it proved especially disastrous for the islands’ native species, likely because of being an opportunistic predator, preying on a variety of small mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, fruits, and plants.

Originally from India, when the small Asian mongoose was brought to the islands of Maui, Moloka’i, and O’ahu in an attempt to manage the rats in sugarcane fields in the late nineteenth century it proved especially disastrous for the islands’ native species, likely because of being an opportunistic predator, preying on a variety of small mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, fruits, and plants.